A Manual of Philippine Birds

by Richard C. McGregor

Genus HYPSIPETES Vigors, 1831.

Longest rictal bristles about one-half the length of tarsus; nuchal hairs moderate in length; bill slender and compressed; a notch near tip of upper mandible, none in lower mandible; tarsus much less than culmen from base; difference between length of primaries and secondaries greater than length of tarsus; tail slightly rounded; plumage brown and gray, under parts sparsely spotted with white.

Species.

• a¹. Smaller; bill and tail shorter; flanks more rufescent or fulvescent.
  • b¹. Smaller; forehead cinereous fugensis (p. [503])
  • b². Larger batanensis (p. [503])
• a². Larger; bill and tail longer; flanks grayer camiguinensis (p. [504])

475. HYPSIPETES FUGENSIS Grant.

FUGA RED-EARED BULBUL.

• Hypsipetes fugensis Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1895), 5, 2; Ibis (1896), 113; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 214; Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 310; McGregor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 31; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 79.

Sa-mot′, Calayan.

Calayan (McGregor); Fuga (Whitehead, McGregor, Mearns).