494 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Male.—Nasal plumes, lores, crown, and nape black; forehead white; 
cheeks and ear-coverts white, the latter tipped with black; rest of upper 
parts ashy gray; under parts enjggply white; thighs gray; wings blackish 
brown; secondaries with a narrow white bar across the middle of their 
length and some of their edges gray; primaries with white patches near 
middle of inner webs, and some with a white spot on outer web; rectrices 
black, all but the middle pair with long white tips. Length, about 200; 
wing, 98; tail, 95; culmen from base, 14; bill from nostril, 9.5; tarsus, 16. 
Female.—Similar to the male but crown, nape, and post-ocular area 
gray like the back; sides of breast mottled or obsoletely barred with 
gray. Wing, 97; tail, 98; culmen from base, 14; bill from nostril, 9; 
tarsus, 15. 
This plain-colored species appears in the Philippines during migration 
only and is, as a rule, very rare. At times, however, it is found in 
considerable numbers. 
“We shot a single specimen in Palawan. Length, 190; wing, 96; tail, 
100; tarsus, 17; middle toe with claw, 15. Bill, legs, feet, and nails 
black.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
Genus LALAGE Boie, 1826. 
Bill moderate in length and rather slender, as deep as wide at nostril; 
wing decidedly longer than tail; rectrices moderately broad ; tarsus strong. 
Plumage black, white, and gray; tail black, tipped with white; wing black 
with a large white patch on secondaries and on greater and median 
coverts. 
Species. 
a’. Forehead black; no white band over eye; larger; length, about 200 mm. 
b*. Larger; wing, about 120 mm.; tail, 86....-............-.....---..- melanoleuca (p. 494) 
b= Smaller: wing, about 0am: Gail S20 see ecie eeneaseee minor (p. 495) 
a*. Forehead and a wide band over eye white: length, about 180 mm. 
niger (p. 495) 
465. LALAGE MELANOLEUCA (Blyth). 
BLACK AND WHITE LALAGE. 
Pseudolalage melanoleuca Brytu, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1861), 30, 97; 
WALDEN, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 178, pl. 29, fig. 2. 
Lalage melanoleuca SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 91, 471; Hand- 
List (1901), 3, 303; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 103 (habits) ; McGrrcor 
and WorcrSsTER, Hand-List (1906), 78. 
Luzon (Martens, Heriot, Everett, Whitehead, Steere Exp.) ; Mindoro (Steere 
Exp., McGregor); Semirara (Worcester) .* 
Male.—F¥orehead, crown, sides of head to lower border of eye, hind 
neck, and mantle black, glossed with green; lower back, rump, and tail- 
* No specimen of L. melanoleuca was collected on Semirara but “a bird, probably 
of this species, was seen.” 
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