482 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



447. ARTAMIDES STRIATUS (Boddaert). 



LUZON ARTAMIDES. 



, Corvus striatus Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl. (1783), .38. 

 Graucalus striatus Walden, Trans. ZooL Soc. (1875), 9, 175, pi. 30, fig. 1. 

 Artamides striatus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Bi-it. Mus. (1879), 4, IS (part) ; 

 Hand-List (1901), 3, 289; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List 

 (1906), 76. 

 Ba-huy ba-huy-an, Manila. 



Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon {Meyer, Everett, Stecre Exp., Whitehead, Mc- 

 Gregor) . 



Male. — General color, except remiges and rectrices, dark gray ; feathers 

 of nimp fringed with white; feathers in front of eyes and covering 

 nostrils, a narrow line above eye, a small patch on jaw, and a few feathers 

 on chin black. Iris straw-yellow; bill, legs, and nails black. Length. 

 about 280; wing, 163; tail, 120; culmen from base, 24; bill from nostril, 

 20; tarsus, 25. From a Lubang specimen. 



Female. — General plumage dark gray; feathers of riunp and upper tail- 

 coverts with white tips and subterminal black bars; abdomen, crissum, 

 wing-lining, and axillars black with narrow white bars ; lores and feathers 

 around eyes blackish. Wing, 170; tail, 12.5; culmen from l)ase, 2(i : 

 tarsus, 2G. From a Luzon specimen. 



448. ARTAMIDES KOCH I Kutter. 



KOCH'S ARTAMIDES. 



Artamides Icochii Kutter, Orn. Centralbl. (1882), 183; .Jourii. fiir Orn. 

 (1883), 19 of reprint; Sharps, Hand-LiSt (1901). 3, 289; McGregor 

 and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 76. 

 Artamides mindanensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 



14. 

 Artamides kochi Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 102. 

 Basilan (Everett, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol (McGregor) ; Leyte 

 (Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Jacquinot, Steere, Everett, Koch & Schadenbcrg, Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Gelestino, Goodfelloio) ; Nipa (Everett) ; Panaon 

 (Everett) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead) . 



Male. — Eump and tail-coverts barred with black and white; lower 

 breast and abdomen barred with black and white, posteriorly tlie Avhite 

 bars wider than the black Ijars; under tail-coverts white, each feather 

 with two or three narrow incomplete black bars. Iris pale yellow. 

 Length, about 2S0; wing, 1G2; tail, 122; culmen from base, 29; bill from 

 nostril, 23 ; tarsus, 25. 



Female. — Above similar to the male; lores and feathers over nostrils 

 mottled with white; outennost rectrices tipped with white, and each with 

 a small subterminal black spot; next pair of rectrices slightly tipped with 

 white; entire under parts barred with black and white, the black bars 

 narrow and incomplete as in the male. Wing, 155; tail, 115; culmen 

 from base, 28 ; bill from nostril, 22 ; tarsus, 25. 



