PYRRHULA. 677 



091. LOXIA LUZONIENSIS Grant. 

 PHILIPPINE CROSSBILL. 



Loxia hizonicnsis GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1894), 3, 51; Ibis (1894), 

 510; GRANT and WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 244 (eggs); WHITEHEAD, 

 Ibis (1899). 239 (nesting habits); MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand- 

 List (1900), 103. 



Cu-di-li-guit, Benguet Igorot. 



Luzon (Whitehead, Worcester, McGregor). 



Ad nil male. Head and body geranium-red,, clearest and brightest on 

 rump, tail-coverts, and under parts, more pinkish on throat, paler on 

 abdomen; lores, malar stripe, and ear-coverts dusky; feathers of back 

 and wing-coverts with dusky bases; thighs drab-gray; under tail-coverts 

 white, washed with geranium -pink, and with pointed shaft-markings of 

 dark brown ; wings and tail blackish, the larger feathers narrowly edged 

 with geranium-pink. Length, a I unit 140: wing, 82; tail. 51; culmen 

 from base, 15 ; tarsus, 15. 



Adult female. Feathers of upper parts dark brown with lighter edges; 

 feathers of back edged with pale yellow; feathers on anterior part of 

 crown edged with light chrome-yellow; rump and tail-feathers nearly 

 uniform light chrome-yellow; nasal plumes, lores, and line under eye 

 whitish; cheeks and ear-coverts blackish brown; under parts drab-gray, 

 chin and throat nearly white; breast and abdomen with a faint olive 

 or yellow wash ; tail-coverts white with pointed shaft-markings ; wing- 

 feathers and rectrices blackish with narrow edges of gray or pale yellow. 

 A female, wing, 80 ; tail, 49 ; culmen from base, 16 ; tarsus, 15. 



Young birds are dingy white heavily streaked, both above and below, 

 with blackish brown and more or less washed with olive-gray, olive-yellow, 

 or light chrome-yellow. Older individuals, probably of the second sum- 

 mer, lose the dark streaks and become extensively yellow, while still 

 older males become indiscriminately mottled with red and yellow. 



"In the end of December, 1893, Mr. Whitehead noticed a pair of 

 these crossbills with nesting materials in their bills. In the following 

 January, while in the highlands of Benguet, he found a nest containing 

 three eggs and situated at the end of a pine branch. The slender branch 

 overhung a steep slope, and it was found impossible to secure the eggs. 

 Again on Mount Data, towards the end of January, 1895, after much 

 trouble, a second nest was discovered near the top of a high pine-tree. 

 This nest contained four young birds, two of which flew away before they 

 could be secured." (Grant and Wfiitehead.) 



Genus PYRRHULA Brisson, 1760. 



Bill very short, stout, and blunt; bill from nostril equal to its width, 

 and to its depth at middle of nostril ; culmen and gonys decidedly curved ; 

 tail nearly square. General color of body buffy brown; chin black; 

 rump white. 



