386 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
349. CENTROPUS MELANOPS Lesson. 
BLACK-EYED COUCAL, 
Centropus melanops Lesson, Traité (1831), 137; Cassin, Ornith. Wilkes 
Exped. (1858), 249, atlas pl. 22, fig. 1; SuHeLtey, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
(1891), 19, 365; SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 168; McGrecor and 
WokRCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 64. 
Basilan (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol 
(McGregor) ; Leyte (Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Peale, Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, 
Steere Exp., Bourns € Worcester, Celestino, Goodfellow) ; Nipa (Hverett) ; Samar 
(Steere Exp., Whitehead). 
Adult (sexes similar).—Head, neck, mantle, and lower parts to middle 
of breast buff, lighter on crown and chin; forehead, lores, cheeks, and 
eyebrow black forming a mask; wings and scapulars bright chestnut’; 
tips of primaries dark brown; remainder of back, tail, and under parts 
black, glossed with bluish green; under wing-coverts blackish. Iris red; 
bill, legs, and claws black. Length of a male from Basilan, 406; 
wing, 165; tail, 230; culmen from base, 38; tarsus, 40. A male from 
Bohol measures: Wing, 170; tail, 235; culmen from base, 40; tarsus, 43. 
“Frequents thick tangles of vines in deep woods. Very common in 
Mindanao. Much rarer in Samar. 
“Four males measure, 412 in length; wing, 149; tail, 209; cul- 
men, 35; tarsus, 38; middle toe with claw, 41. Four females, length, 
441; wing, 155; tail, 236; culmen, 36; tarsus, 41; middle toe with 
claw, 42. 
“The above specimens are from Mindanao. Birds from Samar average 
slightly larger. Eyes dull red; legs and feet blue-black to black; bill and 
nails black.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
350. CENTROPUS UNIRUFUS (Cabanis and Heine). 
RUFOUS COUCAL. 
Pyrrhocentor unirufus CABANIS and HEINE; Mus. Hein. (1862), 4, 118 
(note) . 
Centropus unirufus SHELLEY, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 367; 
SuHarpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 168; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand- 
List (1906), 64. 
Luzon (Heriot, Whitehead, Celestino). 
“Adult—Entire plumage deep rufous, slightly darker above than 
below; the feathers from the forehead to the mantle have darker glossy 
shafts than those of the throat and fore part of the chest; the quills with 
broad brown ends. Bill green, passing into yellow toward the tip and 
on the edges; legs olive-brown. Length, 400; culmen, 38; wing, 160; 
tail, 229; tarsus, 43.” (Shelley.) 
A female from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 160; tail, 
250; culmen from base, 35; tarsus, 40; middle toe with claw, 44. 
