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736. EULABES PALAWANENSIS Sliarpe. 



PALAWAN WATTLED MYNA.* 



Eulahes palawunensis Sharpe, Ibis (1888), 202; McGregor and Worcester, 



Hand-List (1906), 109. 

 Mainatus palairanemis Sharpe. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 104. 



Balabac (Everett) ; C'alamianes {Bourns tC- Worcester) ; Palawan (Steere, 

 Everett, Jjempriere, Whitehead, Vlnien, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino, 

 White). 



Adult (sexes alike). — Black, most of the plumage with a slight green 

 gloss, but the gloss slightly bluish on throat, breast, and hind-neck, pur- 

 plish on mantle; second to seventh primaries with a wide white band, but 

 on the second confined to the inner web and sometimes indicated by a 

 small white spot on the outer web of the eighth. A male from Palawan 

 measures : Wing. 162 ; tail. 7o ; culmen from base, 30 ; bill from nostril. 

 19; tarsus, 36. A female from the same locality, wing, 168; tail, 74; 

 culmen from base, '3'i ; bill from nostril, 21 ; tarsus, 3(). 



''This wattled myna is common in Palawan and extremely abundant 

 in the Calamianes Islands. It is a very noisy bird, and some of its cries 

 are astonishingly human. Iris very dark brown; legs and feet bright 

 yellow ; nails yellow at base, white at tip ; bill orange-red, yellow at tip ; 

 bare flesh of head bright yellow. Five males from the Calamianes aver- 

 age: Length, 281; wing, 106; tail, 77; tarsus, 34; middle toe witli claw, 

 36. Four females from the same locality, length, 273; tail, 73; culmen, 

 30; tarsus, 33; middle toe with claw, 33." (Bourns and Worce.^ter MS.) 



Family COEVIDiE. 



Bill large and compressed, longer than head : culmen strongly curved ; 

 gonys straight; nostrils completely hidden by stiff antrorse frontal 

 feathers, the longest of which equal nearly one-half the length of bill 

 from base; first primar}^ much shorter than second, but more than one- 

 half the length of wing; second primary much shorter than third, fourth 

 longest, third and fifth nearly equal ; rectrices broad ; tail slightly or 

 mucli rounded ; feet and tarsi strong, the latter less tiian culmen from 

 l)ase. Plumage entirely black, glossed with purple and green; .sexes alike. 



(ienera. 



rt'. Tail nnich rounded ; first primary al)nnt oqual to tlio outer secondaries. 



Corone ( p. 722 \ 



a'. Tail very sliglitly rounded the rectrices .subeijual ; first primary shorter than 



tlie outer secondaries Corvus (p. 723) 



* See note under crested mvna. 



