380 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Male. — Entire plumage glossy blue-black. Bill dusky greenish; iris 

 crimson; legs and feet dark steel-blue; nails brown. Length, 490; wing, 

 2il; tail, 237; exposed culmen, 31; bill from nostril, 22. 



Female. — Above dark brown with a faint purple gloss on wing-coverts 

 and scapulars ; feathers of crown, neck, and sides of face with rufous shaft- 

 stripes; back, rump, and wings with small tawny-rufous spots, quills and 

 tail barred with same color; lower parts buff (inclining to white on middle 

 of breast) barred with black; a more or less distinct white band from 

 base of bill to below posterior edge of ear-coverts, wuder posteriorly ; below 

 this a wide band of dark rufous mixed with black; ear-coverts similar; 

 chin and throat striped with black and tawny-buff. Bill dusky greenish ; 

 iris crimson; legs and feet steel-blue; nails brown. Length, 490; wing, 

 240; tail, 227; exposed culmen, 31; bill from nostril, 22. 



Subfamily CENTROPODIN.^. 

 Genus CENTEOPUS Illiger, 1811. 



Bill powerful, strongly curved; legs and feet strong, tarsus naked; 

 claw of hind toe very long and slender, nearly straight; wings short, 

 rounded, and curved to the body, primaries but little longer than second- 

 aries; tail very long, its feathers wide and soft; feathers of head, neck, 

 and throat coarse and decomposed, their shafts strong and polished. 



Species. 



a}. Head, cliin, and throat Ijlack : wings neither chestnut nor fawn, 

 fe^. Entire plumage nearly uniform black, glossed with oil-green. 



c\ Slightly smaller; culmen in male, about 29 mm mindorensis (p. 381) 



c". Slightly larger ; culmen in male, about .32 mm carpenter! (p. 382) 



h-. Neck and breast smoky brown in contrast with the black of head and throat. 



steeri (p. .382) 

 a-. Not uniform black; wings chestnut, rufous, or fawn. 

 h^. Tail black, glossed with blue or green, 

 c^. LTnder parts nearly imiform black. 



dK Head, neck, and breast glossed with bluish violet; wing, 220 mm. or more. 



sinensis (p. 383) 

 (P. Head, neck, and breast glossed with oil-green or dark blue; Ming. 100 

 mm. or less. 

 e^ Wings bright rufous; shafts of wing-coverts rufous: wing lining black. 



viridis (p. j383) 

 e-. Wings dark buff; shafts of wing-coverts pale buff; wing-lining buff. 



javanicus (p. ,384) 

 c". Chin, throat, and breast light bulV; abdomen black, glossed with oil-green. 



melanops (p. 386) 

 ^»^ Tail and entire \ipper parts uniform nifous unirufus (p. 386) 



