ORIOLUS. 697 



708. ORIOLUS ISABELL/E Grant. 



GRANT'S ORIOLE. 



Oriolus isabellce GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1894), 4, 2; Ibis (1895), 

 108; (1899), 101; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 101 (habits); MCGREGOR, 

 Bull. Philippine Mus. (1903), 1, 7 (description of male); MCGREGOR 

 and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 106. 



Luzon ( Whitehead, McGregor, Celestino ) . 



Adult (sexes alike). Upper parts, lores, face, ear-coverts, and sides 

 of neck dark, rich olive-yellow, slightly more olive on crown and exposed 

 edge of wing-feathers; a circle of light yellow around eye; entire under 

 parts, wing-lining, and axillars rich lemon-yellow, slightly darker on 

 chest; thighs slightly olive; wing-quills, primary-coverts, and greater 

 secondary-coverts narrowly edged with lemon-yellow; inner webs of 

 quills dusky brown, broadly edged with lemon-yellow; rectrices edged 

 with lemon-yellow on the tips and inner webs ; shafts brown above, lemon- 

 yellow below. A male from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures : Length, 

 215; wing, 114; tail, 82; culmen from base, 25; bill from nostril, 18; 

 tarsus, 22.5. In a female the iris was brown with an inner darker and 

 outer lighter ring; bill, legs, and nails bluish horn-color. Length, 215; 

 wing, 107 ; tail, 79 ; culmen from base, 26 ; bill from nostril, 19 ; tarsus, 22. 



709. ORIOLUS ALBILORIS Grant. 



WHITE-LORED ORIOLE. 



Oriolus albiloris GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1894), 3, 49; Ibis (1894), 

 504; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 101; MCGREGOR, Bull. Philippine Mus. 

 (1903), 1, 7 (description of male) ; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand- 

 List (1906), 106. 



Luzon ( Whitehead, McGregor, Celestino ) . 



Adult (sexes alike). Wing and upper surface rich olive-yellow like 

 0. isabellce; lores, a small space under eye, base of jaw, and chin white ; 

 under parts lemon-yellow, streaked on sides of breast, sides of abdomen, 

 and sides of body and flanks with dark olive-green; feathers of thighs 

 olive-green with yellow tips ; rectrices olive-yellow, each with a triangular, 

 lemon-yellow patch at the tip preceded by a dark brown patch; central 

 pair unmarked; shafts brown above, lemon-yellow below; wing-feathers 

 as in 0. isabellce. Bill reddish brown. Length, 190 to 200. A male 

 from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 120; tail, 80; culmen 

 from base, 22; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, 20. A female, wing, 109; 

 tail, 75 ; culmen from base, 21 ; bill from nostril, 14 ; tarsus, 19. 



