- Oriolus albiloris Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1894), 3, 49; Ibis (1894), 504; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 101; McGregor, Bull. Philippine Mus.(1903), 1, 7 (description of male); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 106.
Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor, Celestino).
Adult (sexes alike).—Wing and upper surface rich olive-yellow like O. isabellæ; lores, a small space under eye, base of jaw, and chin white; under parts lemon-yellow, streaked on sides of breast, sides of abdomen, and sides of body and flanks with dark olive-green; feathers of thighs olive-green with yellow tips; rectrices olive-yellow, each with a triangular, lemon-yellow patch at the tip preceded by a dark brown patch; central pair unmarked; shafts brown above, lemon-yellow below; wing-feathers as in O. isabellæ. Bill reddish brown. Length, 190 to 200. A male from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 120; tail, 80; culmen from base, 22; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, 20. A female, wing, 109; tail, 75; culmen from base, 21; bill from nostril, 14; tarsus, 19.
710. ORIOLUS SAMARENSIS Steere.
SAMAR ORIOLE.
- Oriolus samarensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 17; Grant, Ibis (1897), 223; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 100 (habits); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 106.
Leyte (Whitehead); Mindanao (Celestino); Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead).
Adult (sexes alike).—Upper parts, ear-coverts, sides of neck, secondary-coverts, tertials, and middle pair of rectrices rich olive-yellow; lores, jaw, chin, throat, and chest cinereous; lower breast, abdomen, flanks, and thighs white, boldly streaked with black; crissum bright gamboge-yellow; primaries blackish edged with gray or olive on the outer webs; secondaries blackish, edged with olive-yellow on outer webs; inner webs of quills broadly edged with bright lemon-yellow; axillars, wing-lining, and bend of wing lemon-yellow; rectrices largely olive-yellow, blackish subterminally, each of the inner webs with a large yellow spot at the tip; shafts black above, yellow below. Bill dull red. A male from northern Mindanao measures: Wing, 113; tail, 79; culmen from base, 25; bill from nostril, 17; tarsus, 21. An unsexed specimen from Samar, wing, 101; tail, 68; culmen from base, 20; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, 20.
“A well-marked species sharply distinct from O. steeri, as well as from O. assimilis, though Dr. Steere has not made the points of difference very plain. Five males average: Length, 195; wing, 105; tail, 72; culmen, 24; tarsus, 20.5; middle toe with claw, 22.3. A female measures: Length, 203; wing, 104; tail, 71; culmen, 23; tarsus, 20.5; middle toe with claw, 22. Iris dull brown to light brownish red; legs and feet dark slate-color, nails blackish; bill light to dark reddish brown.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)