Brachypus urostictus Salvadori, Atti R. Accad. Sc. Torino (1870),
5, 509.
Pycnonotus urostictus Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, pl. 32,
fig. 2.
Poliolophus urostictus Sharpe,
Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 334; Cat. Birds
Brit. Mus. (1881), 6, 63 (text figure of head); Hand-List (1901),
3, 315; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 215; Oates and Reid, Cat. Birds'
Eggs (1903), 3, 308, pl. 10, fig. 9 (egg); McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 79.
Poliolophus basilanicus Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere
Exped. (1890), 19.
Basilan (Steere Exp., McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Catanduanes
(Whitehead); Dinagat (Everett); Leyte (Steere Exp., Whitehead);
Luzon (Meyer, Steere Exp., McGregor, Whitehead); Mindanao (Everett,
Steere Exp., Goodfellow, Celestino); Panaon (Everett); Samar
(Bourns & Worcester).
Adult.--Top of head dark brown, shaft-lines seal-brown; rest of upper
parts dark olive-green, the shafts of the feathers darker; feathers
of lower back long and thick-set, forming a bunch which covers the
feathers of the rump; the long feathers with dark brown subterminal
spots and some of the lateral ones tipped with white washed with
pale yellow; rectrices brown, each with a subterminal blackish
area and a distinct white tip; sides of head dark drab; chin and
throat drab-gray; breast ashy brown, this color, faintly washed with
olivaceous, extends onto sides of neck and breast and onto flanks;
rest of under parts white with some streaks of pale yellow on breast;
axillars and wing-lining white, washed with light yellow. Iris gray;
eyelids lemon-yellow; bill and feet black. Length, about 185. A male
from Luzon measures: Wing, 80; tail, 75; culmen from base, 15; bill
from nostril, 9; tarsus, 16. A male from Bohol, wing, 78; tail, 73;
culmen from base, 15; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 17. A male from
Basilan, wing, 80; tail, 80; culmen from base, 17; bill from nostril,
10.5; tarsus, 17.
In specimens from Basilan the bill is slightly longer and the white
spots on the rectrices occupy more space than in specimens from Luzon.
"The wattled bulbul is fairly common about fruit trees in the forest
and in open fields. A male measures: Length, 187; wing, 78; tail, 81;
culmen, 16; tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 17. A female, length,
174; wing, 78; tail, 80; culmen, 16; tarsus, 16; middle toe with
claw, 17. Iris dark brown; legs, feet, and nails brown; bill black;
eye-wattles yellow." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
Genus MICROTARSUS Eyton, 1839.
The Philippine species of the genus Microtarsus is characterized by
its long tail-coverts, which are two-thirds the length of tail and
nearly as long as the outermost pair of rectrices; rectrices graduated,
and tipped with bright yellow; the colors are black and yellow.