COPSYCHUS. 559 



graduated; outstretched feet not reaching tips of shortest pair of 

 rectrices. Colors black and white, the tail entirely black in the only 

 Philippine species. Sexes somewhat unlike in colors. 



541. COPSYCHUS Ml NDANENSIS (Boddaert). 

 DOMINICO. 



Turdus mindanensis Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl. (1783), 38. 



Turdus mindancensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, pt. 1, 823. 



Gopsychiis mindanensis Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 194, pi. 33, 

 fig. 1; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 60; Hand-List (1903), 

 4, 159; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 218 (habits); McGeegoe and Wob- 

 CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 86. 



A-ni-ni-hol, Siquijor; do-mi-ni-co, Manila. 



Bantayan {McGregor) ; Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, 

 McGregor) ; Bohol [McGregor) ; Bongao [Everett) ; Cebu [Meyer, Everett, Bourns 

 <f- Worcester, McGregor) ; Guimaras [Meyer, Steere Exp.) ; Lapac [Bartsch) ; 

 -Leyte [Everett) ; Lubang [McGregor) ; Luzon [Everett, Mollendorff, Steere Exp., 

 Whitehead, McGregor, Bartsch) ; Masbate [Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; 

 Mindanao [Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns tf- Worcester, Goodfellow) ; Mindoro 

 (Bourns d Worcester, Everett, McGregor) ; Negros [Layard, Everett, Steere 

 Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Keay) ; Romblon (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, 

 Bartsch) ; Samar [Steere Exp.) ; Semirara? [Worcester) ; Sibuyan [Bourns & 

 Worcester, McGregor) ; Siquijor [Bourns d Worcester, Celestino) ; Sulu [Gui- 

 llemard. Bourns & Worcester) ; Tablas [Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Tawi 

 Tawi (Bourns & Worcester); Tieao (McGregor) ; Verde (McGregor). 



Male. — Upper parts and entire head, throat, and breast glossy blue- 

 black; axillars, under wing-coverts, and feathers of thighs black, tipped 

 with white; remainder of under parts white; wings and tail black, 

 outer webs of the feathers glossy; inner wing-coverts entirely white 

 (but one of the greater coverts occasionally half black) ; two second- 

 aries with outer webs white. Length, about 185 mm. A specimen 

 from Siquijor measures : Wing, 92 ; tail, 90 ; culmen from base, 20 ; 

 bill from nostril, 14; tarsus, 25. 



Female. — Similar to the male, but upper parts duller; forehead, 

 lores, chin, throat, and breast ash-gray; flanks and crissum washed with 

 pale fulvous. A female measures : Wing, 83 ; tail, 83 ; culmen from base, 

 18; bill from nostril, 12. 



Young. — Colors similar to adult in pattern, but upper parts dull black ; 

 chin, throat, and breast dark smoke-gray, spotted with white and pale 

 buff. 



''A showy bird, commonly seen in low bushes and about clumps of 

 bamboo, close to the ground, or on it. The male is constantly opening 

 and closing his tail, and seems to be a vain fellow, well aware of his 

 good looks, and disposed to make the most of them. He is a fine singer 

 as well. Seven males average 203 in length ; wing, 107 ; tail, 105 ; 

 culmen, 20; tarsus, 26; middle toe with claw, 24. Four females, length, 



