678 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Species. 



a 1 . Larger; wing, 80 mm. or more leucogenys (p. 678) 



a 2 Smaller; wing less than 80 mm.; general color more brownish. 



steerei (p. 678) 

 692. PYRRHULA LEUCOGENYS Grant. 



PHILIPPINE BULLFINCH. 



Pyrrhula leucogenys GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1895), 4, 41; Ibis 

 (1895), 455, pi. 14 (leucogenis) ; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 239 (feed- 

 ing habits and young) ; McGREGOB and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 

 103. 

 Luzon ( Whitehead, M earns, McGregor}. 



Adult male. Forehead, entire top of head, upper tail-coverts, rec- 

 trices, and secondaries glossy steel-blue ; lores, jaw, and chin black ; 

 cheeks and auriculars white, forming a large patch; back olive-brown; 

 under parts lighter brown; middle of abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 light ochraceous-brown ; rump-band white; primaries black, edged with 

 steel-blue ; innermost secondary edged with orange- vermilion on the outer 

 web; greater coverts widely tipped with light buff; axillars and wing- 

 lining white. Iris dark brown; bill white or pale yellow, black at tip 

 and along the cutting edges; legs pale flesh-color. Length, about 160; 

 wing, 78; tail, 61; depth of fork, 12; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 16.5. 



Adult -female. Like the male, except that the red on the innermost 

 secondary is brownish orange. The difference is very slight and my 

 specimens have no red whatever on the secondary. A female from Pauai, 

 Mountain Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 79; tail, 65; bill from 

 nostril, 10; tarsus, 16. 



An immature, but fully grown, male differs from the adult in having 

 the crown brown, but somewhat darker than the back and with a few 

 black feathers ; lores and jaw dusky ; white cheek-patch small and poorly 

 defined; chin dusky; throat and breast slightly olivaceous. 



This bullfinch is not uncommon in the mossy oak forests of the high- 

 lands of Luzon. 



693. PYRRHULA STEEREI Mearns. 



STEERE'S BULLFINCH. 



Pyrrhula steerei MEARNS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1909), 36, 445. 

 Mindanao ( Mearns ) . 



"Characters. Similar to Pyrrhula leucogenys Grant, from the moun- 

 tains of Lepanto in northern Luzon. The Mindanao bird differs in 

 being smaller, with a differently colored, much smaller bill, more brown- 

 ish coloration, and a tendency to whitening on the middle of the abdomen, 

 which the Luzon bird lacks. 



"Adult male (type, killed July 9). Crown and front of head all 

 round, to just behind eye, black ; crown glossed with purplish blue ; lores, 

 malar region, chin, and upper throat dead black: auriculars white; 



