Female.—Above similar to the male, but forehead more greenish, and tail and coverts green like the back; under parts lighter yellow than in the male; wings blackish and the tail-markings more or less washed with yellowish green. A female measures: Wing, 62; tail, 51; culmen from base, 17.5; tarsus, 18.
“Very common in Palawan but not found by us in the Calamianes. Five males average: Length, 146; wing, 63; tail, 50; culmen, 19; tarsus, 18; middle toe with claw, 16. Four females, length, 138; wing, 60; tail, 52; culmen, 18; tarsus, 18; middle toe with claw, 16. Iris light yellow to grayish white; legs and feet slate-blue; nails darker than feet; upper mandible black, gray along gape; lower mandible grayish white.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
Genus CHLOROPSIS Jardine and Selby, 1826.
A distinct notch near the tip of each mandible; tarsus slightly less than culmen from base; difference between the length of primaries and of secondaries equal to about two-thirds of tarsus. Plumage nearly all bright grass-green, the difference between the sexes very slight.
Species.
- a1. Chin and throat bright yellow. palawanensis (p. [498])
- a2. Chin and throat light green, the chin slightly washed with yellow. flavipennis (p. [499])
469. CHLOROPSIS PALAWANENSIS (Sharpe).
PALAWAN LEAFBIRD.
- Phyllornis palawanensis Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 333, figs. 1 and 2.
- Chloropsis palawanensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 33; Hand-List (1901), 3, 308; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 78.
Balabac (Everett); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Palawan (Steere, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino, White).