692 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Adult (sexes alike). Above chocolate-brown, darkest on forehead and 

 tail-coverts; tertials, secondary-coverts, hind head, neck, back, and rump 

 with distinct white shaft-lines; rectrices dark brown, edged with pale 

 greenish yellow; lores blackish; sides of head and neck like back; under 

 parts dark chocolate-brown, nearly black on chin and crissum; lower 

 breast and abdomen white, forming a large patch. Iris dark red-brown; 

 upper mandible black, lower mandible light horn-blue; legs and nails 

 dark blue. Length, 110 to 120. A male from Camiguin Island meas- 

 ures: Wing, 51; tail, 40; culmen from base, 12; tarsus, 12. A female 

 from Palawan, wing, 50; tail, 37; culmen from base, 11; tarsus, 12. 



Young. An immature male has the color pattern like the adult, but 

 the brown is lighter, the shaft-lines are less pronounced, and the abdomen 

 is washed with buff. 



"Everett's weaver was common about the rice fields, and was several 

 times observed in deep forest, greatly to our astonishment. Four males 

 average : Length, 108 ; wing, 48 ; tail, 39 ; culmen, 12 ; tarsus, 13 ; middle 

 toe with claw, 16.5. Four females, length, 107; wing, 48.5; tail, 37.5; 

 culmen, 12; tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 17. Iris dark brown: 

 legs, feet, and nails leaden; upper mandible black, lower gray. Found 

 breeding in Palawan in the month of December." (Bourns and Wor- 

 cester MS.) 



705. UROLONCHA TUSCANS (Casain). 

 CHOCOLATE WEAVER. 



Spermestes fuscans CASSIN, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. (1852), 6, 185. 

 Uroloncha fuscans SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 364; Mc- 



GBEGOB, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1903), 1,6; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, 



Hand-List (1906), 105. 



Cagayan Sulu (McGregor). Borneo. 



Adult (sexes alike). Entire plumage chocolate-brown; chin, throat, 

 wings, and tail darker; lower breast and abdomen with indications of 

 light shaft-lines. A male measures: Wing, 49; tail, 37; culmen from 

 base, 10.5 ; tarsus, 13. Female, wing, 50 ; tail, 39 ; culmen from base, 

 10.5; tarsus, 14. 



Genus REICHENOWIA Poche, 1904.* 



Tail short and square; outstretched feet reaching to end of tail. 

 Forehead blue, remaining upper parts mostly green ; breast and abdomen 

 tawny-rufous. 



* Chlorura Reichenbach, 1863, is preocupied by Chlorura Sclater, 1862. 



