698 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



710. ORIOLUS SAMARENSIS Steere. 

 8AMAR ORIOLE. 



Oriolus samarensis STEEBE, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 17; 

 GRANT, Ibis (1897), 223; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 100 (habits); 

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



Leyte (Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Celestino) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns d 

 Worcester, Whitehead). 



Adult (sexes alike). Upper parts, ear-coverts, sides of neck, second- 

 ary-coverts, tertials, and middle pair of rectriees rich olive-yellow; lores, 

 jaw, chin, throat, and chest cinereous; lower breast, abdomen, flanks, 

 and thighs white, boldly streaked with black; crissum bright gamboge- 

 yellow; primaries blackish edged with gray or olive on the outer webs; 

 secondaries blackish, edged with olive-yellow on outer webs; inner webs 

 of quills broadly edged with bright lemon-yellow ; axillars, wing-lining, 

 and bend of wing lemon-yellow; rectrices largely olive-yellow, blackish 

 subterminally, each of the inner webs with a large yellow spot at the tip ; 

 shafts black above, yellow below. Bill dull red. A male from northern 

 Mindanao measures : Wing, 113 ; tail, 79 ; culm en from base, 25 ; bill from 

 nostril, 17; tarsus, 21. An unsexed specimen from Samar, wing, 101; 

 tail, 68; culmen from base, 20; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, 20. 



"A well-marked species sharply distinct from 0. stceri, as well as 

 from 0. assimilis, though Dr. Steere has not made the points of difference 

 very plain. Five males average: Length, 195; wing, 105; tail, 72; 

 culmen, 24 ; tarsus, 20.5 ; middle toe with claw, 22.3. A female measures : 

 Length, 203; wing, 104; tail, 71; culmen, 23; tarsus, 20.5; middle toe 

 with claw, 22. Iris dull brown to light brownish red ; legs and feet dark 

 slate-color, nails blackish; bill light to dark reddish brown." (Bourns 

 and Worcester MS.) 



711. ORIOLUS STEERI Sharpe. 

 STEERE'S ORIOLE. 



Oriolus steerii SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. October or earlier (1877), 3, 

 213, pi. 10 (description of adult from Negros) ; GRANT, Ibis (1896), 

 532 (Negros; key to Philippine species of Oriolus) ; CLARKE. II. i- 

 (1898), 119; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 101 (habits). 



Oriolus nigrostriatus BOURNS and WORCESTER, Minnesota Acait. Xat. Si-i. 

 Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 16 (Negros and Masbate); Proc. U. S. Xat. 

 Mus. (1898), 20, 558, no. 305; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 

 (1906), 107. 



Masbate (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Negros (Steere, Keay, White- 

 head, Celestino}. 



Male. Above olive-yellow; slightly darker on head, and brighter, 

 more golden, on rump and tail-coverts ; chin, throat, and chest dark ashy 

 gray; lower breast and abdomen whitish, each feather with a broad 



