PRIONOCHILUS. 639 



wings, and tail, glossy blue-black; under parts cinereous; chin, a narrow 

 line on middle of breast, center of abdomen, crissum, thighs, axillars, 

 wing-lining, and inner webs of quills white ; flanks washed with light olive. 

 Length, 90 ; wing, 53 ; tail, 25 ; culmen from base, 10 ; bill from nostril, 

 6 ; greatest width of bill, 7 ; tarsus, 14. 



"Adult female. Above brown, head faintly washed with olive; back, 

 wing-coverts, and outer webs of secondaries heavily washed with olive- 

 yellow, rump almost entirely of the latter color; entire under surface 

 grayish white faintly tinged with olive-yellow, lighter along center of 

 breast and abdomen; under wing-coverts, axillars, and inner webs of 

 quills pure white. 



"Young male. Like female but lacks yellow wash on outer webs of 

 secondaries, the wing and tail being black as in adult male." (Bourns 

 and Worcester.) 



"The locality Panaon, assigned to this species in the Catalogue of 

 Birds, is a manifest error. The type specimen, an unsexed bird which 

 was rightly supposed to be a male, was obtained in Cebu by Everett. No 

 additional specimen seems to have been secured until 1892, when we again 

 found it in Cebu. Ten males average as follows: Length, 90; wing, 52; 

 tail, 26; culmen, 11.4; tarsus, 13.4; middle toe with claw, 13.7. Six 

 females, length, 89; wing, 52; tail, 25; culmen, 11.6; tarsus, 13.4; 

 middle toe with claw, 14. Iris chocolate-brown; bill, legs, feet, and 

 nails black. Breeding in June. Food fruit." (Bourns and Worcester 

 MS.) 



648. PRIONOCHILUS OLIVACEUS Tweeddale. 

 OLIVACEOUS FLOWERPECKER. 



rrionochilus olivaceus TWEEDDALE, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, 

 536; Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 111, pi. 8, fig. 3; SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. (1885), 10, 75; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 235; McGREGOB and 



WOBCESTEE, Hand-List (1906), 97i 







Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol (McGregor) ; 

 Dinagat (Everett); Leyte (Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Platen) ; Samar (White- 

 head). 



Male. Above bright olive-green; wing-feathers and rectrices olive- 

 brown, edged with olive-green; lores white; under parts smoke-gray; 

 chin, a broad median line on throat, breast, and abdomen white, sides of 

 abdomen and flanks streaked with white; thighs smoke-gray mixed with 

 white; crissum white faintly washed with yellow; axillars and wing- 

 lining white. Length, about 100. A male from Basilan measures: 

 Wing, 56; tail, 26; culmen from base, 10; bill from nostril, 6.5; greatest 

 width of bill, 6.5; tarsus, 15. 



Female. Similar to the male, but with the gray of under parts more 

 ashy. A female from Basilan, .wing, 54 ; tail, 25 ; culmen from base, 

 10 ; bill from nostril, 6.5 ; tarsus, 13. 



