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349. CENTROPUS MELANOPS Lesson. 



BLACK-EYED COUCAL. 



Centra pii.s inclanupti Lesson, Traits (1831), 137; Cassix, Ornith. Wilkes 

 Exped. (1858), 249, atlas pi. 22, fig. 1; Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 (1891), 19, 365; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 168; McGregor and 

 Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 64. 



Basilan {Steere, Everett, 8teere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, MeGref/or) ; Bohol 

 {McGregor) ; Leyte (Whitehead) ; Mindanao {I'eale, Everett, Koch d- Hchailenberg, 

 Hteere Exp., Bourns d- Worcester, Celestino, Goodfelloir) ; Nipa (Everett) ; Saniar 

 (Steere Exp., Whitehead) . 



Adult {sexes similar). — Head, neck, mantle, and lower parts to middle 

 of breast biiflP, lighter on crown and chin : forehead, lores, cheeks, and 

 eyebrow black forming a mask ; wings and scapulars bright chestnut ; 

 tips of primaries dark brown; remainder of back, tail, and under parts 

 black, glossed with bluish green ; under wing-coverts blackish. Iris red ; 

 bill, legs, and claws Idack. Length of a male from Basilan, 406; 

 wing, 165; tail, 230; culmen from base, 38; tarsus, 40. A male from 

 Bohol measures: Wing, 170; tail, 235; culmen from base, 40; tarsus, 43. 



''Frequents thick tangles of vines in deep woods. Yerv common in 

 Mindanao. Much rarer in Samar. 



"Four nudes measure, 412 in length; wing, 149; tail, 209; cul- 

 men, 35; tarsus, 38; middle toe with claw, 41. Four females, lengtb. 

 441; wing, 155; tail, 236; culmen, 36; tarsus, 41; middle toe with 

 claw, 42. 



"The at)Ove specimens are from Mindanao. Birds from Samar average 

 slightly larger. Eyes dull red ; legs and feet blue-black to black ; bill and 

 nails black." (Bourns and Worcester 3IS.) 



350. CENTROPUS UNIRUFUS (Cabanis and Heine). 



RUFOUS COUCAL. 

 Pyrrhocentor unirufus Cabaxis and Heine, Mus. Hein. (1862), 4, 118 



( note ) . 

 Centropus unirufus Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 367; 

 Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 168; McGregor and Worcester, Hand- 

 List (1906), 64. 



Luzon (Heriot, Whitehead, Celestino) . 



"Adult. — Entire plumage deep rufous, slightly darker above than 

 below; the featliers from the forehead to tlie mantle have darker glossy 

 shafts tiian those of the throat and. fore })art of the chest; the (|uills with 

 broad brown ends. Bill green, passing into yellow toward the tij) and 

 on the edges; legs olive-brown. Length, 400; culmen, 38; wing, 160; 

 tail, 229; tarsus, 43." {Shelley.) 



A female froni Bataan Province, Luzon, measures: Wing. 160; tail, 

 250; culmen from base, 35; tarsus, 40; middle toe with claw, 44. 



