Cryptolopha xanthopygia Whitehead, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1893),
1, 31; Exped. Kina Balu (1893), pl. 16, fig. 2; Sharpe, Hand-List
(1901), 3, 275; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 76.
Cryptolopha montis Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 275 (part);
McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 76.
Palawan (Whitehead).
Adult.--Top and sides of head, ear-coverts, and hind neck chestnut;
a broad band of black on crown from above eye to side of neck; lores
yellowish; eyelids white; cheeks bright yellow, becoming rufous
posteriorly; rest of upper parts dull olive-green; rump yellow;
wings and tail brown, edged with olive-green; median and greater
wing-coverts tipped with yellow, forming a double wing-bar; under
parts, including under wing-coverts and axillars, bright yellow with
a wash of rufous on sides of upper breast.
I have not seen a specimen of this flycatcher and no good description
of it is available. [63] The above description is compiled from that
of C. montis. By an oversight C. montis has been credited to Palawan
by Sharpe and by McGregor and Worcester; as the only specimen of
flycatcher warbler from Palawan is the type of C. xanthopygia, the
former species must be stricken from the list of Philippine birds.
Genus EUMYIAS Cabanis, 1850.
Bill broad and depressed; width at nostril nearly twice the depth;
rictal bristles moderate; the wing exceeds the tail by less than
length of tarsus; first primary more than one-half of second and less
than one-half of third; fourth and fifth nearly equal and longest;
tarsus twice the bill from nostril. This genus is similar to Cyornis,
but in Eumyias the sexes are alike in colors and nearly the entire
plumage is verditer-blue.
Species.
a1. Forehead and chin verditer-blue to base of bill.
b1. Feathers of lores with black bases, the tips blue; wing
longer. ... panayensis (p. 477)
b2. Feathers of lores entirely black; wing shorter ... nigriloris
(p. 478)
a2. Forehead and chin black ... nigrimentalis (p. 478)