Pyrrhula leucogenys Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1895), 4, 41;
Ibis (1895), 455, pl. 14 (leucogenis); Whitehead, Ibis (1899),
239 (feeding chabits and young); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 103.
Luzon (Whitehead, Mearns, McGregor).
Adult male.--Forehead, entire top of head, upper tail-coverts,
rectrices, and secondaries glossy steel-blue; lores, jaw, and
chin black; cheeks and auriculars white, forming a large patch;
back olive-brown; under parts lighter brown; middle of abdomen
and under tail-coverts light ochraceous-brown; rump-band white;
primaries black, edged with steel-blue; innermost secondary edged
with orange-vermilion on the outer web; greater coverts widely tipped
with light buff; axillars and wing-lining white. Iris dark brown;
bill white or pale yellow, black at tip and along the cutting edges;
legs pale flesh-color. Length, about 160; wing, 78; tail, 61; depth
of fork, 12; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 16.5.
Adult female.--Like the male, except that the red on the innermost
secondary is brownish orange. The difference is very slight and my
specimens have no red whatever on the secondary. A female from Pauai,
Mountain Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 79; tail, 65; bill from
nostril, 10; tarsus, 16.
An immature, but fully grown, male differs from the adult in having
the crown brown, but somewhat darker than the back and with a few
black feathers; lores and jaw dusky; white cheek-patch small and
poorly defined; chin dusky; throat and breast slightly olivaceous.
This bullfinch is not uncommon in the mossy oak forests of the
highlands of Luzon.