720 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Under these conditions it will ha understood that the distribution of 

 the two races of Sarcops, as indicated by islands, is only tentative, Avhile 

 the assignment of the various collectors to their ])ro])er places is more 

 or less a matter of guesswork. 



Genus GOODFELLOWIA Hartert, 1!M);}. 



Bill shorter than head; nostrils overlnmg by antrorse frontal plumes; 

 bare space around each eye much smaller than in Sarcops; a long crest 

 of decomposed feathers springing from the crown; tail miicli longer than 

 wing; rectrices graduated; plumage black, glossed with steel-green; a 

 large white patch on rump. 



7.35. GOODFELLOWIA MIRANDA Hartert. 



SPECTACLED STARLING. 



CoodfcUoicia inirumla Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (l!)0;i), 11; Novit. 

 Zool. (1906), 13, 758, pi. 2, fig. 2; McGregor and Worcester, Hand- 

 List { 1906). 108. 



Tu-ca-ling', Bagobo of Mount Apo. 

 ^lindanao {Goodfelloic, Mearns). 



Adult (sexes alike). — Black, glossed with dark green; wings and tail 

 blackish brown with little or no gloss; wing-lining and a large patch on 

 lower back and I'ump white. "Iris dark l)rown, bare skin round eye 

 yellow; bill yellow, shading into greenish yellow at the base; toes 

 dirty olive or blackish olive; legs olive-yellow." (Goodfelhiv.) Length, 

 about 300 mm. A nude measures: Wing, IIG; tail, 150; cuhncn from 

 base, 22 ; tarsus, 35 ; crest, 31 ; difference between longest and shortest 

 rectrices, 90. A female, wing, 114; tail, 162; culmen frojn base, 25; 

 tarsus, 30; crest^ 25; difference between longest and shortest rectrices, 

 92. 



This })eculiar starling is confined to Ihc liigldands of ^[indanao. 



Genus EULABES Cuvier, 1817. 



Bill shorter than head and very stout; culmen strongly curved; nasal 

 feathers antrorse, but short and not concealing the nostrils; feathers on 

 head very short, those of lores and a broad band of featiiers on each side 

 of crown and occiput pile-like; a bare space below eacli eye; a bare space 

 behind each eye ending in a fleshy flap, or wattle, on nape; tail square, 

 less tlian one-half the wing and not extending beyond the very stout legs 

 and feet; plumage black, glossed with l)liie and purple; a white bar on 

 the wincr. 



