490 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
The elusive cuckoo shrike seems to be closely related to #. everetti, but 
no direct comparison can be made as the latter species is not represented 
in the Bureau of Science cole 
Genus PERICROCOTUS Boie, 1826. 
Bill short and slightly flattened; wing and tail nearly equal in length, 
or wing shorter than tail; rectrices very narrow and strongly graduated, 
the outermost pair being less than one-half the middle pair. Length 
usually less than 200 mm. Excepting the gray and white P. cinereus 
which is migratory, the Philippine species are glossy black and some 
shade of bright yellow, red, or orange. 
Species.* 
a. Under parts bright red or yellow. 
b*. Breast and abdomen yellow or orange. 
c’. Breast, abdomen, and crissum bright egg-yellow.............. marches (p. 490) 
ce’. Breast, abdomen, and crissum orange. 
@. Rump and tail-coverts pompeian-orange. 
6). MEL LOMPOY MME WITT choc pet eg ee emt atiee leytensis (p. 492) 
@.. Dill BHOrher aNd ATTOWEN 2c nas he dsenc poe eee ee novus (p. 491) 
d’, Rump, tail-coverts, and under parts lighter orange.. johnstonie (p. 492) 
b*, Breast;and’ abdomen fienyi vermont ee ee igneus (p. 493) 
a’. Under parts white; no red nor-yellow on any part of the plumage. 
cinereus (p. 493) 
459. PERICROCOTUS MARCHESAZ® Guillemard. 
MARCHESA MINIVET. 
Pericrocotus marchese GUILLEMARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1885), 259, pl. 18, fig. 
1; SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 300; McGrrcor and WoRCESTER, 
Hand-List (1906), 77. 
Sulu (Guillemard, Platen, Bourns & Worcester). 
Adult male.-—Entire head, chin, throat, and anterior half of back 
glossy blue-black; lower back, rump, tail-coverts, and all of the under 
parts, except chin and throat, bright egg-yellow; wings glossy black; a 
diagonal yellow band begins on middle of fifth primary and extends on to 
the secondaries where it becomes wider; inner greater secondary-coverts 
widely tipped with yellow; four or five secondaries each with a yellow 
spot near tip; rectrices black, all but the central pair with wide yellow 
tips. Wing, 77; tail, 80; culmen from base, 14; bill from nostril, 10; 
tarsus, 15. 
“This fine bird was several times found in flocks in Sulu, both in the 
forest and in the open. Iris, bill, legs, feet, and nails black. Six males 
* This key can be used with adult birds only. 
