﻿DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF PRIONOCHILUS FROM 

 THE HIGHLANDS OF LUZON 



By Richard C. McGregor 



(From the Section of Ornithology and Taxidermy, Biological Laboratory, 

 Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I.) 



One colored plate 



Prionochilus anthonyi sp. nov. —j— 



Specific characters. — Top of head with a conspicuous yellow 

 patch; remainder of upper parts glossy black; chin and throat 

 white; remainder of under parts yellow; under tail-coverts 

 cadmium yellow. 



Type. — No. 7515, s , Bureau of Science collection. Polis 

 Mountain, Ifugao subprovince, Luzon, P. I. Collected February 

 7, 1913, by R. C. McGregor and A. Celestino. 



Description of type. — Forehead, lores, circumocular region, 

 and auriculars black with very little gloss; crown and occiput 

 cadmium yellow ; neck, back, rump, upper tail-coverts and median 

 and lesser wing-coverts black glossed with dusky dull bluish 

 green ; primaries and their coverts, secondaries and their greater 

 coverts, and rectrices fuscous to chaetura black; edge of wing, 

 wing-lining, axillars, and inner edges of primaries white; chin, 

 throat, and malar region white ; remainder of under parts green 

 or yellow; sides of breast citrine, becoming more yellowish on 

 flanks ; middle of breast and abdomen empire yellow ; under tail- 

 coverts cadmium yellow. Iris brown; bill black; legs, feet, and 

 nails blackish slate ; soles pale yellow. Length in flesh, 106 mm. ; 

 wing, 56 ; tail, 29 ; tarsus, 16. 



Remarks. — Prionochilus anthonyi does not resemble any other 

 Philippine species of the genus and appears to differ from all 

 other described species in pattern of coloration. The bill is 

 similar in proportions to that of P. quadricolor Tweeddale, but 

 is very much larger. The bill is much stouter than in P. johan- 

 nse Sharpe. The type and only specimen was collected in the 

 mossy forest near the summit of the Government trail between 

 Banaue and Bontoc, within a few meters of the rest house on 

 the Banaue side. The elevation of the rest house is about 2,000 

 meters. The species is named for Alfred Webster Anthony. 



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