GREEN-BACKED TAILORBIRD.
- Orthotomus chloronotus Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1895), 3, 2; Ibis (1896), 117, pl. 3, fig. 1; Grant and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 240 (eggs); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 220; Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 192; Oates and Reid, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1905), 4, 191, pl. 9, fig. 12; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 88.
Pi-pit ma-na-ná-hi, Manila.
Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor).
Adult.—Differs from Orthotomus derbianus in having the entire back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and crissum olive-green and the rectrices edged basally with olive-green. A male measures: Wing, 49; tail, 47; culmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 21. A female, wing, 50; culmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 19.
Three eggs of the green-backed tailorbird from Isabela Province, Luzon, collected by Whitehead on May 29, 1894, are described as follows: “Shape ovate. Ground-color pure white, thinly spotted and dotted all over with brown-lake over-markings and a few pale reddish lilac under-markings. Measurements 16 mm. by 13 mm.
“The nest of the green-backed tailorbird is of the ordinary type, being a pocket formed by two leaves sewn together. It was placed among the herbage by the side of a path about 8 inches [20 cm.] from the ground. On the 19th of May a second nest was found on a small islet in a stream where a few slender large-leaved plants were growing just above the water. This nest contained two young birds.” (Grant and Whitehead.)
559. ORTHOTOMUS RUFICEPS (Lesson).
RUFOUS-HEADED TAILORBIRD.
- Edela ruficeps Lesson, Traité d’Orn. (1830), 309.
- Orthotomus ruficeps Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 224; Hand-List (1903), 4, 193; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 88.