Prionochilus inexpectatus Hartert, Novit. Zool. (1895), 2, 64 and
486; Grant, Ibis (1896), 533; (1897), 240; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 97.
Prionochilus bicolor Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 235.
Bohol (McGregor); Leyte (Whitehead); Luzon (Everett, Whitehead,
McGregor); Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester, Everett, McGregor); Negros
(Whitehead); Samar (Whitehead).
Male.--Above glossy blue-black; breast, sides, and flanks cinereous;
chin, throat, median line of breast and abdomen, crissum, wing-lining,
axillars, and inner webs of quills white. Bill, legs, and nails
black. A male from Mindoro measures: Length, 90; wing, 49; tail, 23;
culmen from base, 9; bill from nostril, 6; greatest width of bill,
6; tarsus, 10.
Female.--Above brown, washed with olive-green, brightest on rump,
tail-coverts, and outer webs of secondaries; below similar to the male,
but with a faint olivaceous wash. Wing, 51; tail, 25; culmen from base,
9; bill from nostril, 5.5; tarsus, 13.
"This recently-described species has now been met with in Samar and
Leyte. It seems more than probable that it is not really distinct from
P. bicolor Bourns and Worcester; but having no typical specimens of
the latter form from Mindanao, I can not be certain." (Grant.)
Genus PIPRISOMA Blyth, 1844.
Bill very short and stout, its greatest width considerably more than
bill from nostril; gonys strongly convex; wing long and pointed; first
(outermost) primary wanting; second, third, and fourth primaries
subequal and longest; tail extending beyond the end of middle
toe. Upper parts light brown; breast and abdomen white, streaked
with brown.