LALAGE. 495 



coverts white, tlie back grayish; entire under parts white; wings and 

 tail black, glossed with green ; inner secondaries and greater coverts with 

 wide edges of white; inner median coverts entirely white; quills, except 

 first primary, edged with white on inner web ; two outermost pairs of 

 rectrices tipped witli white. Length, about 210. A male from Mindoro 

 measures: Wing, 119; tail, 90; culmen from base, 21; bill from nostril, 

 14; tarsus, 23. 



Female.— Ahoxe light ashy gray, nearly white on tail-coverts; feathers 

 of head and mantle with dusky shaft-lines ; below white ; breast obscurely 

 barred with gray; thighs gray with darker shaft-lines; wings and tail as 

 in the male but with less white on median coverts. A female from Min- 

 doro, wing, 112; tail, 85; culmen from base, 21; bill from nostril, 14.5; 

 tarsus, 23. 



466. LALAGE MINOR (Steere). 



STEERE'S LALAGE. 



Pseudolalage minor Steeke, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 15. 

 Lalage minor Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 103; Shaepe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 

 303; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 78. 

 Leyte (Whitehead); Mindanao (Steere Exp., Celestino) ; Samar (Bourns d- 

 Worcester, Whitehead). 



Male.— In color exactly like the male of L. melanoleuca, but distin- 

 guished by its smaller size. Length, about 200. A male from northern 

 Mindanao measures: Wing, 104; tail, 81; culmen from base, 21; bill 

 from nostril, 15; tarsus, 20. 



i^ema?e.— Differs from the female of L. melanoleuca in having the 

 chin, throat, and breast plumbeous gray with somewhat obscure gray 

 bars. 



"Steere's lalage is not very common; a pair shot in Samar had been 

 feeding on fruit and insects. Iris dark brown; legs, feet, and nails 

 black; upper mandible black, lower nearly so. The male measures, 197 

 in length; wing, 107; tail, 81; culmen, 25; tarsus, 22; middle toe with 

 claw, 21. A female, length, 203; wing, 106; tail, 82; culmen, 20,; 

 tarsus, 24; middle toe with claw, 18." {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



467. LALAGE NIGER (Forster). 

 PIED LALAGE. 



Turdus dominicus (not of Linnaeus, 1766) P. L. S. Muller, Natursyst. 



Suppl. (1776), 145. 

 Ttirdus niger Forster, Ind. Zool. (1781), 41. 

 Turdus terat Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl. (1783), pi. 17. 

 Lalage terat Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 95; Hand-List (1901), 



3, 303; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 104; Gates and Reid, Cat. Birds' 



Eggs (1903), 3, 300. 

 Lalage niger McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 78. 



Ca-hu-rao hu-rao, Ticao; sa-lac-sd-can, Cagayancillo; iu-ga-ung-6n, Siquijor; 

 ibong-pd-re, Manila. 



