Sarcophanops samarensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere
Exp. (1890), 23; Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota
Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 54; Hartert, Genera Avium,
Eurylæmidæ (1905), 6; Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 2; McGregor
and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 68.
Leyte (Whitehead); Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester,
Whitehead).
"Adult male.--Much smaller than S. steerii. Head, back, and scapulars
purple somewhat mottled with brown; white nuchal collar very narrow
and ill-defined; purple of back gradually changing into brown on rump;
tips of scapulars black; upper tail-coverts and tail bright chestnut;
upper wing-coverts black; tertiaries barred across both webs with
pure white; three secondaries with lilac spot on outer webs; tips of
secondaries and tertiaries black; primaries blackish brown; chin,
throat, sides of face, ear-coverts, and lores pure black; breast,
abdomen, and flanks lilac, deeper on upper breast, lighter on abdomen;
thighs black, the feathers tipped with brown; under tail-coverts light
buff; axillars white; under wing-coverts black; bend of wing white.
"Female like male except that the lilac of under surface is replaced
by white. Bill, legs, feet, nails, and eyes exactly as in S. steerii
and the young show the same plumage changes as in that species.
"Average measurements from five males: Length, 153; wing, 78; tail,
62; culmen, 22; tarsus, 20." (Bourns and Worcester.)
"Habits exactly like those of the preceding species; abundant in
Samar but irregularly distributed." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
Order PASSERIFORMES.