Orycerca everetti Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20,
96; Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 764, pl. 73, fig. 2.
Uroloncha everetti Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 363;
Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 242; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 105.
Bi-lit', Calayan.
Balabac (Everett); Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester,
McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester);
Calayan (McGregor); Camiguin N. (McGregor); Catanduanes
(Whitehead); Cebu (Everett, Bourns & Worcester); Guimaras
(Steere Exp.); Leyte (Whitehead); Luzon (Everett, McGregor);
Mindanao (Koch & Schadenberg, Bourns & Worcester, Celestino);
Mindoro (Porter); Negros (Whitehead, Celestino); Palawan (Everett,
Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, White); Panay
(Steere Exp.); Polillo (McGregor); Romblon (Bourns & Worcester);
Samar (Whitehead); Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Tablas
(Bourns & Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester, Everett).
Adult (sexes alike).--Above chocolate-brown, darkest on forehead and
tail-coverts; tertials, secondary-coverts, hind head, neck, back, and
rump with distinct white shaft-lines; rectrices dark brown, edged with
pale greenish yellow; lores blackish; sides of head and neck like back;
under parts dark chocolate-brown, nearly black on chin and crissum;
lower breast and abdomen white, forming a large patch. Iris dark
red-brown; upper mandible black, lower mandible light horn-blue;
legs and nails dark blue. Length, 110 to 120. A male from Camiguin
Island measures: Wing, 51; tail, 40; culmen from base, 12; tarsus,
12. A female from Palawan, wing, 50; tail, 37; culmen from base, 11;
tarsus, 12.
Young.--An immature male has the color pattern like the adult, but
the brown is lighter, the shaft-lines are less pronounced, and the
abdomen is washed with buff.
"Everett's weaver was common about the rice fields, and was several
times observed in deep forest, greatly to our astonishment. Four males
average: Length, 108; wing, 48; tail, 39; culmen, 12; tarsus, 13;
middle toe with claw, 16.5. Four females, length, 107; wing, 48.5;
tail, 37.5; culmen, 12; tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 17. Iris
dark brown; legs, feet, and nails leaden; upper mandible black, lower
gray. Found breeding in Palawan in the month of December." (Bourns
and Worcester MS.)