BUBULCUS. RT 
slate-gray; the white of chin and throat is much restricted and on the 
fore breast is reduced to a few shaft-lines; all of the wing-coverts are 
edged with dull rusty buff. The specimen collected by Mearns near 
Palawan measures: Wing, 165; tail, 58; culmen from frontal feathers, 
60; tarsus, 47; middle toe with claw, 50. 
renus BUBULCUS Bonaparte, 1854. 
Non-breeding plumage all white; legs and nails black; primaries and 
secondaries about equal in length; exposed culmen less than middle toe 
with claw, the latter less than tarsus. 
148. BUBULCUS COROMANDUS (Boddaert). 
INDIAN CATTLE EGRET. 
Cancroma coromanda BoppAERT, Tabl. Pl. Eul. (1783), 54. 
Bubuleus coromandus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1898), 26, 217; 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 202; OaTrs, Cat. Birds Eggs (1902), 2, 130, 
pl. 5, fig. 2; BLaNnForp, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 389, fig. 92 
(head) ; McGrecor and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 35; McGrecor, 
Phil. Jour. Sei. (1907) 2, sec. A, 322. 
Ta-gac’ cal-a-bau, Manila; la-guac’, Calayan; tda-bon, Bohol. 
Balabae (Steere Exap., Everett); Basilan (McGregor); Batan (McGregor) ; 
Bohol (Everett, McGregor); Bongao (Everett); Calayan (McGregor) ; Catan- 
duanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Cuyo 
(McGregor); Guimaras (Steere Eap.); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Jagor, 
Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Masbate (Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindanao 
(Steere Exp., Goodfellow); Mindoro (McGregor); Negros (Steere Hxp., Bourns 
dé Worcester) ; Palawan (Steere, Everett, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns 
& Worcester, White); Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Siquijor (Ce- 
lestino); Sulu (Platen); Tablas (Bourns & Worcester); Ticao (McGregor). 
Eastern Siberia, Korea, China, Indian Peninsula, Ceylon; Indo-Chinese countries 
to Celebes and Moluccas. 
Adult in breeding plumage.—White ; head, neck, and fore breast golden 
buff; long decomposed dorsal plumes delicate vinaceous-pink, washed 
with brown; ends of the plumes on fore breast also vinaceous-pink. Iris 
light lemon-yellow; bill and bare skin around eye chrome-yellow; legs 
and nails black. A male from Mariveles, Luzon, measures: Length, 540; 
wing, 265; tail, 98; exposed culmen, 63; tarsus, 95; middle toe with 
claw, 89. 
Young.—Pure white, without any ornamental plumes but with an 
orange tinge on the crown. 
Winter plumage.—Pure white, without any ornamental plumes. 
This bird is often seen in large flocks and individuals alight fearlessly 
on the backs of cattle; they often feed in plowed fields. Several hundreds 
of cattle egrets nested in a patch of giant grass near Guindulman, Bohol. 
Eggs obtained in June vary in length from 40 to 50 mm. and in width 
from 30 to 35. They are pale blue in color. 
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