382 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
344. CENTROPUS CARPENTERI Mearns. 
BATAN we COUCAL, 
Centropus carpentert MEARNS, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 856; 
McGRE¢oR, ibid., 340. 
Batan (Mearns, McGregor). 
Adult.—Similar to Centropus mindorensis (Steere), but slightly = 
Mearns gives the following measurements: 
“Centropus carpentert: Adult male type: Length, 440; wing, 166; 
tail, 278; chord of culmen, 32; depth of bill, 16; tarsus, 42; middle ve 
with claw, 44. 
“Centropus mindorensis: Average of three males: Length, 398; wing, 
153; tail, 238; chord of culmen, 29.2; depth of bill, 13.7; tarsus, 40; 
middle toe with claw, 42.” 
Young.—A young bird taken June 4 is black; upper parts including 
wings and tail lightly glossed with green ; chin and throat slightly mottled 
with gray; tips of primaries and secondaries slightly rufous; alula and 
all upper wing-coverts barred with rufous. Wing, 140; tail, 112; culmen 
from base, 26. 
345. CENTROPUS STEERI Bourns and Worcester. 
STEERE’S COUCAL. 
Centropus steerii BOURNS and WORCESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Oce. 
Papers (1894), 1, 14; SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 166; McGrrcor 
and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 63. 
Mindoro (Platen, Bourns é Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor). 
“Sexes alike-—Forehead, crown and nape, sides of face, chin, throat, 
and upper breast greenish black; the coarse shafts of the feathers shiny 
black, the webs with a faint greenish tinge; hind neck and back, sides 
of neck, wing-coverts, and breast smoky brown with faint greenish 
tinge ; hind back and rump slaty black, tips of feathers with greenish tinge ; 
upper tail-coverts and upper surface of tail uniform dull metallic green ; 
shafts of feathers jet-black from base to tip; upper surface of wings earthy 
brown with metallic green gloss like the tail, except on the four outer 
primaries, which have little gloss; abdomen browner than breast and 
with less metallic wash; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts hike rump; 
under surface of tail black with faint metallic blue gloss; under wing- 
coverts and axillars like breast; under surface of wing uniform blackish 
brown. Seven males measure as follows: Length, 424; wing, 150; tail, 
216; culmen, 40; tarsus, 42. A female measures, 495 in length; wing, 
158; tail, 233; culmen, 44; tarsus, 43.” (Bourns and Worcester.) 
Steere’s coucal is somewhat like the Mindoro coucal but its breast and 
neck are smoky brown while the entire plumage of the Mindoro coucal is 
black glossed with green. The two species are fairly abundant in Min- 
doro and inhabit thick grass patches and jungle. | 
