Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Leyte (Whitehead); Mindanao (Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow); Samar (Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead).

Adult male.—Spot on lower part of lores buff; hind neck, mantle, and sides of neck vinaceous-buff, washed with lilac; throat vinaceous-buff deepening to vinaceous-cinnamon on chest, and on the rest of under parts which are heavily washed with lilac. A male from Basilan measures: Length, 120; wing, 73; tail, 39; culmen from base, 15; bill from nostril, 10; tarsus, 16.

Adult female.—Similar to the male, but lacking the black line over eye to nape. A female from Basilan measures: Wing, 70; tail, 40; culmen from base, 16; bill from nostril, 10; tarsus, 15.

Family CERTHIIDÆ.

Bill gently curved, moderate in length, slender, decidedly compressed beyond nostril, and with an obsolete notch in cutting edge near tip; culmen with a distinct ridge; nostril-opening linear, exposed, and overhung by an operculum; rictal bristles few and very short; no frontal bristles; a number of long retrorse hairs springing from among the feathers of forehead; wing moderate in length, flat, and somewhat pointed; first primary slender and less than one-third of second, the latter nearly equal to third, fourth, and fifth which are subequal and longest; tail square, little more than one-half of wing; divisions between tarsal scutes obsolete; tarsus, longer than bill from nostril, and equal to, or shorter than, middle toe with claw. The characters detailed above are taken from Rhabdornis, a genus not typical of the family, but the only Philippine representative of the Certhiidæ.

Genus RHABDORNIS Reichenbach, 1853.

Characters the same as those given for the Family. Upper parts brown or gray, and black, streaked with white; under parts white, sides streaked with brown or black.

Species.