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“Between this young bird and the adult above described there is 
every possible gradation of plumage. The nestling is probably streaked 
below. . 
“ ‘Tris brown surrounded by white; bill orange; the tip horny ; the base 
of the lower mandible and the angle of the mantle brownish green; legs 
yellow.’ (David and, Oustalet.) Length, about 229; tail, 71; wing, 
132; tarsus, 32; bill from gape, 33.” (Oates.) 
The gray starling is known as a member of the Philippine ornis from 
a single specimen collected in northern Luzon by Doctor Mearns. This 
specimen has the chin, throat, and crest mottled with white and there is 
much white on the forehead and sides of head. 
Genus LAMPROCORAX Bonaparte, 1853. 
Bill stout, strongly compressed except toward base; culmen strongly 
curved throughout; gonys straight; feathers on nasal membrane short 
and pile-like; feathers of head, face, and throat lanceolate; tail mode- 
rate in length; rectrices narrow and graduated, their tips rounded; 
plumage entirely glossy black. 
Species. 
eu mamerer =) WAT. LOD MUMS GALLS (Osc. ..25p ska nastcamnn te phen etedan ieee panayensis (p.715) 
Pra esIeeeIass WITH TONE ss EAT (Be conn co nccncha nn sczeatnpr aninborasteee todayensis (p. 716) 
730. LAMPROCORAX PANAYENSIS (Scopoli). 
PHILIPPINE GLOSSY STARLING, 
Muscicapa panayensis Scopo.t, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1783), 2, 96. 
Calornis panayensis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 147; GRANT 
and WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 244, pl. 6, fig. 1 (egg) WHITEHEAD, Ibis 
(1899), 241 (habits). 
Lamprocoraz panayensis OBERHOLSER, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. (1899), 
Bile 216: 
Ldmprococorax panayensis McGrecor and WoRrcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 
109 (error). 
Ga-lang-si-ang’, Bohol; lu-ci-ang, Cagayancillo; ma-ma-di-ang’, Cuyo; co-ra- 
cling, Manila. 
Agutaya (McGregor); Balabac (Everett); Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan 
(Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Batan (McGregor) ; 
Bohol (Everett, McGregor) ; Bongao (Hverett); Cagayancillo (McGregor); Ca- 
gayan Sulu (Guillemard, McGregor); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester, Mc- 
Gregor); Caluya (Porter); Camiguin N. (McGregor) ; Camiguin 8. (Murray) ; 
Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Wor- 
cester, McGregor); Cuyo (McGregor); Fuga (McGregor) ; Guimaras (Steere 
Eap.); Leyte (Everett) ; Libagao (Porter); Luzon (Meyer, Méllendorff, Steere 
Eap., Bourns € Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor, Bartsch) ; Marinduque (Steere 
Eap.); Masbate (Bourns € Worcester, McGregor, Bartsch) ; Mindanao (Everett, 
Steere Exp., Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; 
Negros (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Keay) ; Nipa (LEve- 
rett); Palawan (Steere, Everett, Platen, Whitehead, Lempriere, Steere Exp., 
