Criniger everetti Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20,
535; Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 827, pl. 84.
Iole everetti Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 57;
Hand-List (1901), 3, 313; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 215; McGregor
and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 79.
Dinagat (Everett); Leyte (Steere Exp., Whitehead); Mindanao
(Everett, Goodfellow, Celestino); Panaon (Everett); Samar (Steere
Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead).
Adult male.--Above bright olive-yellow; primaries, secondaries,
and rectrices mostly dark brown, their exposed webs olive-yellow;
shafts of the rectrices light yellow below; sides of face faintly
washed with brown; feathers on jaw with black shafts; chin yellow,
the shafts of the feathers black and extending beyond the webs;
throat and fore breast light rufescent brown, washed with yellow;
rest of under parts yellow; sides, flanks, and upper thighs darker;
middle of abdomen, lower thighs, crissum, axillars, and wing-lining
light egg-yellow. Length of a male, 198; wing, 116; tail, 105;
culmen from base, 28; bill from nostril, 19; tarsus, 20. The female
is similar to the male.
"Everett's yellow bulbul is a deep-woods bird, and a hill bird as
well. In Samar I. philippinensis [=gularis] is found about the open
fields and in the forests of the lowlands, but as soon as one goes a
few hundred feet up on the hills I. everetti takes its place. Three
males average, 248 in length; wing, 112; tail, 96; tarsus, 20.5; middle
toe with claw, 24; culmen, 27. A female measures, 229 in length; wing,
96; tail, 89; culmen, 27; tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 22. Iris
chocolate-brown; legs, feet, and nails leaden; upper mandible nearly
black, lower gray." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)