- a1. Larger; wing, 80 mm. or more leucogenys (p. [678])
- a2. Smaller; wing less than 80 mm.; general color more brownish. steerei (p. [678])
692. PYRRHULA LEUCOGENYS Grant.
PHILIPPINE BULLFINCH.
- Pyrrhula leucogenys Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1895), 4, 41; Ibis (1895), 455, pl. 14 (leucogenis); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 239 (feeding chabits and young); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 103.
Luzon (Whitehead, Mearns, McGregor).
Adult male.—Forehead, entire top of head, upper tail-coverts, rectrices, and secondaries glossy steel-blue; lores, jaw, and chin black; cheeks and auriculars white, forming a large patch; back olive-brown; under parts lighter brown; middle of abdomen and under tail-coverts light ochraceous-brown; rump-band white; primaries black, edged with steel-blue; innermost secondary edged with orange-vermilion on the outer web; greater coverts widely tipped with light buff; axillars and wing-lining white. Iris dark brown; bill white or pale yellow, black at tip and along the cutting edges; legs pale flesh-color. Length, about 160; wing, 78; tail, 61; depth of fork, 12; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 16.5.
Adult female.—Like the male, except that the red on the innermost secondary is brownish orange. The difference is very slight and my specimens have no red whatever on the secondary. A female from Pauai, Mountain Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 79; tail, 65; bill from nostril, 10; tarsus, 16.
An immature, but fully grown, male differs from the adult in having the crown brown, but somewhat darker than the back and with a few black feathers; lores and jaw dusky; white cheek-patch small and poorly defined; chin dusky; throat and breast slightly olivaceous.
This bullfinch is not uncommon in the mossy oak forests of the highlands of Luzon.