366 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Species. 
a. Tail longer, about 120 mm.; head, Ps and back with a light oil-green gloss. 
lugubris (p. 366) 
a*, Tail shorter, about 100 mm.; head, neck, and back blue-black without gloss. 
velutinus (p. 367) 
329. SURNICULUS LUGUBRIS (Horsfield). 
GLOSSY DRONGO CUCKOO, 
Cuculus lugubris HoRSFIELD, Trans. Linn. Soe. (1821), 13, pt. 1, 179. 
Surniculus lugubris SHELLEY, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 227; 
SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 156; Oates and Rerp, Cat. Birds’ Eggs 
(1903), 3, 104; McGrecor and WorcrEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 60. 
Balabae (Everett); Palawan (Hverett, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Euzp., Bourns 
€ Worcester, Celestino, White). Southern China, Malay and Indian Peninsulas, 
Burmese provinces, Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 
Adult male.—Black; wings, upper and under tail-coverts, and tail 
glossed with dark green; head, neck, back, and under parts glossed with 
blue; a few hidden white feathers on occiput; a patch of white feathers 
on each thigh; under tail-coverts narrowly barred and tipped with white; 
a large white spot on inner web of first primary; a diagonal white bar 
across inner webs of inner primaries; outermost tail-feathers incom- 
pletely barred and tipped with white; outer webs of three or four outer 
tail-feathers narrowly edged with white near base. “Bill, legs, and claws 
black; gape and inside of mouth orange-red; iris brown.” (Shelley.) 
Length, 240; wing, 130; tail, 122; culmen from base, 24. 
Adult female.—Similar to the male. Wing, 120; tail, 112; culmen 
from base, 21. 
“Tmmature.—Shghtly less glossy, of a more violet shade, and with 
clear white terminal spots to many of the feathers irregularly dispersed 
over the plumage; under wing-coverts irregularly barred with white, and 
the white bar across the quills broader than in the adult; the tail rather 
more barred with white, the white bars being much more distinct on the 
outer feathers, and the penultimate ones partially barred near their quills, 
and all the feathers with white spots at their tips. 
“This species varies considerably in the shape of the tail which is some- 
times very much forked, with the long feathers curved outwards towards 
their ends, but is sometimes square, the outer feather on each side being 
always short. The white of the nape is often absent, and the amount of 
the white spotting of the upper tail-coverts varies greatly. The most 
constant characters are the white spot and bar on the under surface of the 
quills, the bars on the under tail-coverts, and the bars on the outer tail- 
feathers, the latter varying in amount according to age. The immature 
bird, Cuculus albopunctatus Drap. has white spots which vary in number 
