Adult (sexes alike).—Similar to Cryptolopha olivacea, but uniform olive-green above with no gray lines on head; lighter on rump and tail-coverts; chin and throat clear light yellow; cheeks and ear-coverts light greenish yellow; a band of olive-green from lores through eye to occiput, bordered above by a line of greenish yellow. Iris dark gray; upper mandible dark brown, lower mandible pale yellow; legs pale blue. Male: Length, 127; wing, 58; tail, 44; culmen from base, 14; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 19. Female: Wing, 54; tail, 45; culmen from base, 13; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 18.
“Only a single specimen collected, but it is so distinct from the allied forms that we have no hesitation in forming a species on the strength of it. Legs, feet, and nails very light brown; upper mandible dark brown, lower mandible light brown; breeding in Cebu in June.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
439. CRYPTOLOPHA NIGRORUM Moseley.
GREEN FLYCATCHER WARBLER.
- Cryptolopha nigrorum Moseley, Ibis (1891), 47, pl. 2, fig. 1; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 110 (habits).
- Abrornis nigrorum Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 276; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 76.[59]
Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor); Mindoro (Whitehead); Negros (Steere Exp., Whitehead).
Adult (sexes alike).—Above dull olive-green, darkest on crown, lightest on rump and tail-coverts; wings and tail brown, the feathers edged with olive-green; two outermost pairs of rectrices edged with white on inner webs; greater coverts tipped with greenish yellow forming a bar; lores and post-ocular band dark brown, surmounted by a greenish yellow line; cheeks and ear-coverts greenish yellow; below nearly uniform greenish yellow or light olive-green, lightest on abdomen and crissum; feathers of throat and breast with white shafts. Length of a male from Benguet Province, Luzon, 114; wing, 57; tail, 40; culmen from base, 11; bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 20. Female, wing, 52; tail, 37; culmen from base, 11; tarsus, 19.
Young.—An immature bird has the upper parts slightly duller and the line over the eye much paler than the adult; throat and breast very pale yellow; abdomen and crissum light yellow; the sides more dusky than the center of breast and abdomen; pale yellow tips of wing-coverts well-marked.