ARACHNOTHERA. 663 



078. ARACHNOTHERA DILUTIOR Sharpe. 

 PALE SPIDER HUNTER. 



Arachnothera dilutior SHARPE, Nature (1876), 14, 298; SHELLEY, Monogr. 

 Nectarin. pt. 3 (1877), 363, pi. 116; GADOW, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 (1884), 9, 105; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 100. 



Palawan (Steere, Everett, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, 

 Celestino, White). 



Male. Crown olive-brown; ear-coverts leaden gray; remainder of 

 upper parts olive-green ; chin, throat; and chest light gray ; lower breast, 

 sides, and abdomen pale green; crissum very pale gray; pectoral tufts 

 chrome-yellow; wings and tail blackish brown, the feathers edged with 

 olive-green. A male measures: Wing, 70; tail, 48; culmen from base, 

 37; bill from nostril, 31; tarsus, 17. 



Female. Similar to the male. Wing, 63; tail, 44; culmen from 

 base, 33; bill from nostril, 28; tarsus, 17. 



In this species the yellow pectoral tufts are present in both sexes and 

 are of a lighter yellow than in the male of A. flammifera. 



"Ten males average: Length, 165; wing, 69; tail, 48; culmen, 40; 

 tarsus, 17; middle toe with claw, 23. Ten females, length, 144; wing, 

 61; tail, 42; culmen, 35; tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 16.. Iris 

 brown, legs, feet, and nails slaty blue; bill black except base of lower 

 mandible, which is gray. Food spiders' and insects." (Bourns and 

 Worcester MS.) 



679. ARACHNOTHERA PHILIPPINENSIS (Steere). 

 NAKED-FACED SPIDER HUNTER. 



Philemon philippinensis STEERE, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 



21. 



Arachnothera clarce PLATEN, Jour, fur Orn. (1890), 148. 

 Arachnothera philippinensis GRANT, Ibis (1897), 237; WHITEHEAD, Ibis 



(1899), 231; McGBEGOB and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 100. 



Leyte ( Whitehead ) ; Mindanao (Platen); Samar (Steere Exp., Whitehead). 



"Adult -female. Above olive-green; wings brown, edged with olive- 

 yellow ; under surface ashy olive, washed with olive-green ; forehead, space 

 about gape, in front of eye, and ear-coverts bare. Length, 168; wing, 81 ; 

 tail, 46; culmen, 39." (Steere.) "Iris and bill black; feet pinkish 

 brown ; gape brilliant white ; bare skin on face pinkish yellow." ( White- 

 head.) 



Grant states that the plumage is identical in the two sexes of this 

 species. 



