366 MAXIMAL OF PHILIPPINE P.IRDS. 



Species. 



a\ Tail longer, about 120 mm.; head, neck, and back witli a light oil-green gloss, 



lugubris (p. 366) 

 a: Tail shorter, about 100 mm.; head, neck, and back blue-black without gloss. 



velutinus (p. 367) 



329. SURNICULUS LUGUBRIS (Horsfield). 



GLOSSY DRONGO CUCKOO. 



Cuculus lugubris Horsfield. Trans. Linn. Soc. (1821), 13, pt. 1, 17fl. 



Surniculus lugubris Shellky, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 227; 

 Sharpe, Hand-List (1900). 2, 156; Gates and Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs 

 (1903), 3, 104; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), GO. 



Balabac (Everett) ; Palawan {Everett. Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns 

 d Worcester, Celestino, White). Southern China, Malay and Indian Peninsulas, 

 Burmese provinces, Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 



Adult ?na1e. — Black; wings, upper and under tail-coverts, and tail 

 glossed with dark green; head, neck, back, and under parts glossed with 

 blue; a few hidden white feathers on occiput; a patch of white feathers 

 on each thigh ; under tail-coverts narrowly barred and tipped with white ; 

 a large white spot on inner web of first primary ; a diagonal white bar 

 across inner webs of inner primaries; outermost tail-feathers incom- 

 pletely barred and tipped with white; outer webs of three or four outer 

 tail-feathers narrowly edged with white near base. "Bill, legs, and claws 

 black; gape and inside of mouth orange-red; iris brown." (Shelley.) 

 Length, 240; wing, 130; tail, 122; culmen from base, 2-4. 



Adult female. — Similar to the male. Wing, 120; tail, 112; culmen 

 from base, 21. 



"Immature. — Slightly less glossy, of a more violet shade, and with 

 clear white terminal spots to many of the feathers irregularly dispersed 

 over the plumage ; under wing-coverts irregularly barred with white, and 

 the white bar across the quills broader than in the adult ; the tail rather 

 more barred with white, the white bars being much more distinct on the 

 outer feathers, and the penultimate ones partially barred near their quills, 

 and all the feathers with white spots at their tips. 



"This species varies considerably in the shape of the tail wliich is some- 

 times very much forked, with the long feathers curved outwards towards 

 their ends, but is sometimes square, the outer feather on each side being 

 always short. The white of the nape is often absent, and the amount of 

 the white spotting of the upjxM- tail-coverts varies greatly. The most 

 constant characters are the white spot and bar on the under surface of the 

 quills, the bars on the under tail-coverts, and tlie bars on the outer tail- 

 feathers, the latter varying in amount according to age. Tlie immature 

 bird, Cuculus albopunctatus Draj). has white s])ots wliich vary in number 



