Basilan (Steere, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Mindanao (Murray, Everett, Steere Exp.).
Adult.—Forehead, crown, and occiput dark brown, shafts of the feathers blackish and their edges slate; rest of upper parts lighter brown, the feathers with olivaceous edges and ashy or slate-gray tips; wings dark brown, the outer webs of the feathers lighter and narrowly edged with olivaceous; tail similar; lores and sides of head dull brown; chin, throat, and fore breast tawny or light tan-brown, darker on breast; sides of breast washed with olive; shafts of chin-feathers black and produced beyond the webs; shafts of breast-feathers a trifle lighter than their webs; rest of the under parts white, the feathers edged with pale yellow, producing a streaked appearance; flanks more or less washed with brown; axillars and under wing-coverts white, washed with pale yellow. The sexes are similar in colors. A male from Basilan measures: Length, 255; wing, 123; tail, 105; culmen from base, 29; bill from nostril, 17; tarsus, 21. A female from Basilan, wing, 117; tail, 114; culmen from base, 25; bill from nostril, 16; tarsus, 21.
“The rufous-throated bulbul is common in Mindanao and Basilan; it is found along edges of forest, in second growth, and in guava bushes. Two males average: Length, 238; wing, 111; tail, 98; culmen, 26; tarsus, 19; middle toe with claw, 23. A female, length, 241; wing, 106; tail, 95; tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 22. Iris dark brown; legs and feet brown to nearly black; bill black.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
482. IOLE GULARIS (Pucheran).
PHILIPPINE BULBUL.
- Turdus philippensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, 814 (not of Müller, 1776, nor of Boddaert, 1783).
- Philedon gularis “Cuvier,” Pucheran, Arch. du Mus. d’Hist. Nat. [Paris], (1855), 7, 344, pl. 18.
- Iole philippensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit Mus. (1881), 6, 58; Hand-List (1901), 3, 313 (part); Grant and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 238 (eggs); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 215; Oates and Reid, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 307; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 79.
Tug-bi-á, Bohol; pa-nu-cá, Lubang; tam-si, Manila.
Banton (Celestino); Bohol (Steere Exp., McGregor); Cebu (Meyer, Murray, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Leyte (Everett, Steere Exp.); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Kittlitz, Meyer, Möllendorff, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Exp.); Mindanao (Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Goodfellow); Panaon (Everett); Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester).
Adult.—Similar to Iole rufigularis, but smaller, and easily recognized by the more rufescent chin and throat and the very distinct white, or whitish, shaft-lines on these parts. The sexes are similar in colors. Extreme and average measurements of ten males from Mariveles, Bataan Province, Luzon, are as follows: Wing, 96 to 104 (100); tail, 88 to 90 (89); exposed culmen, 20 to 22 (20.5); bill from nostril, 15 to 16 (15.5); tarsus, 18 to 21 (20). Ten females from the same locality measure: Wing, 91 to 100 (94); tail, 81 to 89 (85); exposed culmen, 19 to 22 (19.5); bill from nostril, 15 to 16 (15.5); tarsus, 19 to 22 (20).
“Found about fruit trees in the forest, but more abundant in the open country, so far as our observation goes. Masbate birds are larger than those from the other islands, as the following measurements will show.