LAMPROCORAX. 715 



"Between this young bird and the adult above described there is 

 every possible gradation of plumage. The nestling is probably streaked 

 below. 



" *Iris brown surrounded by white ; bill orange : the tip horny ; the base 

 of the lower mandible and the angle of the mantle brownish green; legs 

 yellow.^ {David and Oustalet.) Length, about 229; tail, 71; wing, 

 132; tarsus, 32; bill from gape, 33." (Oates.) 



The gray starling is kno-mi as a member of the Philippine omis from 

 a single specimen collected in northern Luzon by Doctor 3Iearns. This 

 specimen has the chin, throat, and crest mottled with white and there is 

 much white on the forehead and sides of head. 



Genus LAMPROCOEAX Bonaparte, 1853. 



Bill stout, strongly compressed except toward base; culmen strongly 

 curved throughout; gonys straight; feathers on nasal membrane short 

 and pile-like; feathers of head, face, and throat lanceolate; tail mode- 

 rate in length; rectrices narrow and graduated, their tips rounded; 



plumage entirely glossy black. 



Species. 



a\ Larger; wing, 105 mm.; tail, 75 paiiayensis (p. 715) 



a*. Smaller; wing, 95 mm.; tail, 59 todayensis (p. 716) 



730. LAMPROCORAX PANAYENSIS (Scopoli). 



PHILIPPINE GLOSSY STAELING. 



Muscicapa panayensis Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1783), 2, 96. 

 Calomis panayensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 147; Grant 



and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 244, pi. 6, fig. 1 {egg) Whitehead, Ibis 



(1899), 241 (habits). 

 Lamprocorax panayensis Oberholser, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. (1899), 



51, 216. 

 Lamprococorax panayensis McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 



109 (error). 



Ga-lang-si-ang', Bohol; lu-ci-ang, Cagayancillo ; ma-ma-di-ang' , Cuyo; co-ra- 

 cling, Manila. 



Agutaya (McQregor) ; Balabac {Everett); Bantayan {McGregor); Basilan 

 {Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Batan {McGregor) ; 

 Bohol {Everett, McGregor) ; Bongao {Everett) ; Cagayancillo {McGregor) ; Ca- 

 gayan Sulu {Guillemard, McGregor) ; Calamianes {Bourns & Worcester, Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Caluya {Porter); Camiguin N. {McGregor); Camiguin S. {Murray); 

 Catanduanes {Whitehead); Cebu {Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Wor- 

 cester, McGregor); Cuyo {McGregor); Fuga {McGregor); Guimaras {Steere 

 Exp.); Leyte {Everett); Libagao {Porter); Luzon {Meyer, Mollendorff, Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor, Bartsch) ; Marinduque {Steere 

 Exp.); Masbate {Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, Bartsch); Mindanao {Everett, 

 Steere Eoop., Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; 

 Negros {Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Keay) ; Nipa {Eve- 

 rett) ; Palawan {Steere, Everett, Platen, Whitehead, Lempriere, Steere Exp., 



