Cryptolopha mindanensis Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1903),
14, 12; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 76; Grant, Ibis
(1906), 481.
Behr-riss behr-riss, Bagobo (Mount Apo).
Mindanao (Goodfellow, Mearns).
Male.--Above rich olive-yellow; wings and tail brown, edged with
olive-green; inner webs of two outermost pairs of rectrices white; no
light bar on wing-coverts; lores bright greenish yellow; no dark line
through eye and no light line above eye; under parts rich greenish
yellow as in the female. Wing, 61; tail, 44; culmen from base, 12;
bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 20. This description is taken from a
specimen in poor condition, collected on Mount Apo by Mearns. The
description of the type is added.
"Female.--Upper surface olive-green; remiges blackish brown, outwardly
edged with the color of the back, inwardly with yellowish white;
middle rectrices dusky brown, edged with olive-green, outermost
pair with the inner webs white, except a brown patch near the base;
basal half of outer webs pale sulphur-yellow, distal half, except
a line near the shaft, dusky brown; the next pair similar, but with
little more brown near the base, and the outer web throughout with
dusky patches, the third pair from outside with an irregular white
stripe near the shaft on the inner web and a narrow white border;
a narrow brownish buff superciliar line, not very conspicuous; under
side sulphur-yellow; fore neck and breast tinged with olive-green;
under wing-coverts white, yellow near the edge of the wing; under
tail-coverts yellow. Wing, 59.5; tail, 45; bill, 10; tarsus, about 18;
(not quite certain, because both damaged by shot)." (Hartert.)