LALAGE. 495 
coverts white, the back grayish; entire under parts white; wings and 
tail black, glossed with green; inner secondaries and greater coverts with 
wide edges of white; inner median coverts entirely white; quills, except 
first primary, edged with white on inner web; two outermost pairs of 
rectrices tipped with white. Length, about 210. A male from Mindoro 
measures: Wing, 119; tail, 90; culmen from base, 21; bill from nostril, 
14; tarsus, 23. 
Female.—Above light ashy gray, nearly white on tail-coverts; feathers 
of head and mantle with dusky shaft-lines; below white; breast obscurely 
barred with gray; thighs gray with darker shaft-lines; wings and tail as 
in the male but with less white on median coverts. A female from Min- 
doro, wing, 112; tail, 85; culmen from base, 21; bill from nostril, 14.5; 
tarsus, 23. 
466. LALAGE MINOR (Steere). 
STEERE’S LALAGE, 
Pseudolalage minor STEERE, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 15. 
Lalage minor WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 103; SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 
303; McGrrcor and WorcrEsTER, Hand-List. (1906), 78. 
Leyte (Whitehead); Mindanao (Steere Hxp., Celestino); Samar (Bourns & 
Worcester, Whitehead). 
Male.—In color exactly like the male of LZ. melanoleuca, but distin- 
guished by its smaller size. Length, about 200. A male from northern 
Mindanao measures: Wing, 104; tail, 81; culmen from base, 21; bill 
from nostril, 15; tarsus, 20. 
Female.—Differs from the female of L. melanoleuca in having the 
chin, throat, and breast plumbeous gray with somewhat obscure gray 
bars. 
“Steere’s lalage is not very common; a pair shot in Samar had been 
feeding on fruit and insects. Iris dark brown; legs, feet, and nails 
black; upper mandible black, lower nearly so. The male measures, 197 
in length; wing, 107; tail, 81; culmen, 25; tarsus, 22; middle toe with 
' claw, 21. A female, length, 203; wing, 106; tail, 82; culmen, 26; 
_ tarsus, 24; middle toe with claw, 18.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
467. LALAGE NIGER (Forster). 
PIED LALAGE. 
Turdus dominicus (not of Linneus, 1766) P. L. 8S. Mutrier, Natursyst. 
Suppl. (1776), 145. 
Turdus niger Forster, Ind. Zool. (1781), 41. 
Turdus terat Bopparrt, Tabl. Pl. Enl. (1783), pl. 17. 
Lalage terat SuHarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 95; Hand-List (1901), 
3, 303; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 104; Oares and Rew, Cat. Birds’ 
Eggs (1903), 3, 300. 
Lalage niger McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 78. 
_ Ca-hu-raé hu-raé, Ticao; sa-lac-sé-can, Cagayancillo; bu-ga-ung-6n, Siquijor ; 
tbong-pd-re, Manila. 
