“Three males average: Length, 267; wing, 121; tail, 111; culmen, 31; tarsus, 22; middle toe with claw, 24. A female measures, 260 in length; wing, 115; tail, 102; culmen, 31; tarsus, 23; middle toe with claw, 23. Iris, legs, feet, and nails dark brown; bill nearly black. Breeding in June.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
Genus POLIOLOPHUS Sharpe, 1877.
Occipital crest short and pointed; eye surrounded by a narrow wattle; bill from base about equal to tarsus; rictal bristles long, the longest much more than bill from nostril; rectrices graduated and tipped with white; difference between lengths of outermost and middle tail-feathers more than length of bill from nostril.
488. POLIOLOPHUS UROSTICTUS (Salvadori).
WATTLED BULBUL.
- Brachypus urostictus Salvadori, Atti R. Accad. Sc. Torino (1870), 5, 509.
- Pycnonotus urostictus Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, pl. 32, fig. 2.
- Poliolophus urostictus Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 334; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 63 (text figure of head); Hand-List (1901), 3, 315; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 215; Oates and Reid, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 308, pl. 10, fig. 9 (egg); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 79.
- Poliolophus basilanicus Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 19.
Basilan (Steere Exp., McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Catanduanes (Whitehead); Dinagat (Everett); Leyte (Steere Exp., Whitehead); Luzon (Meyer, Steere Exp., McGregor, Whitehead); Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Goodfellow, Celestino); Panaon (Everett); Samar (Bourns & Worcester).
Adult.—Top of head dark brown, shaft-lines seal-brown; rest of upper parts dark olive-green, the shafts of the feathers darker; feathers of lower back long and thick-set, forming a bunch which covers the feathers of the rump; the long feathers with dark brown subterminal spots and some of the lateral ones tipped with white washed with pale yellow; rectrices brown, each with a subterminal blackish area and a distinct white tip; sides of head dark drab; chin and throat drab-gray; breast ashy brown, this color, faintly washed with olivaceous, extends onto sides of neck and breast and onto flanks; rest of under parts white with some streaks of pale yellow on breast; axillars and wing-lining white, washed with light yellow. Iris gray; eyelids lemon-yellow; bill and feet black. Length, about 185. A male from Luzon measures: Wing, 80; tail, 75; culmen from base, 15; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 16. A male from Bohol, wing, 78; tail, 73; culmen from base, 15; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 17. A male from Basilan, wing, 80; tail, 80; culmen from base, 17; bill from nostril, 10.5; tarsus, 17.
In specimens from Basilan the bill is slightly longer and the white spots on the rectrices occupy more space than in specimens from Luzon.
“The wattled bulbul is fairly common about fruit trees in the forest and in open fields. A male measures: Length, 187; wing, 78; tail, 81; culmen, 16; tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 17. A female, length, 174; wing, 78; tail, 80; culmen, 16; tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 17. Iris dark brown; legs, feet, and nails brown; bill black; eye-wattles yellow.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)