ZETHEOPSAR. 717 
“This small species of glossy starling was abundant in the high forest 
above the Bagobo village of Todaya, where small flocks flew with great 
speed above the treetops, only alighting on the highest dry branches, 
where they were with difficulty reached by shot.” (Jearns.) 
Genus AUTHEOPSAR Sharpe, 1890. 
Frontal and nasal feathers long, antrorse or erect, and concealing the 
nostrils; feathers of crown, occiput, and ear-coverts lanceolate ; tail short 
and rounded; plumage nearly all black or slate-gray; tips of primary- 
coverts and a large section of primaries pure white, forming a conspicuous 
wing-bar. { 
732. AETHEOPSAR CRISTATELLUS (Linneus). 
CRESTED MYNA,* 
Gracula cristatella LINNUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 109. 
Acridotheres cristatellus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 92; 
WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 241. 
‘ #theopsar cristatellus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 666; 
McGrecor and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 108. 
Mar-ti-nez, Manila. 
Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, Celestino, 
Bartsch). Central and southern China. 
Adult (sexes similar).—General color black, slightly ashy on the 
breast; crown and back faintly glossed with green and purple; under 
tail-coverts and rectrices tipped with white; a wide basal band of white 
across the primaries. Male from Manila: Iris yellow-ocher; bill pale 
green, brown at base; legs and feet dark yellow; nails horn-color. 
Length, 270; wing, 134; tail, 83; culmen from base, 25; bill from 
nostril, 17; tarsus, 39. Female from Manila: Iris light orange with 
a narrow outer yellow ring; bill greenish white; legs dull yellow; nails 
horn-gray. Length, 250; wing, 130; tail, 81; culmen from base, 25; 
bill from nostril, 16; tarsus, 38. 
“Young.—Brown instead of black, with no crest on the head, only 
‘the frontal plumes being close-set. ‘Bill yellowish horn-color; roof of 
mouth, inside of bill, and tip of tongue yellow, the rest flesh-color with 
a bluish-black tinge; legs light brownish yellow on the under parts, sole, 
and joints of scales, the rest purplish brown, darker on the claws; iris 
slight greenish yellow” (R. Swinhoe.)”  (Sharpe.) 
“Very abundant about the city of Manila. Quite common about the 
Laguna de Bay.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
*The name myna is restricted by Jerdon, and other writers on Indian orni- 
thology, to the species of Acridotheres and Temenuchus, while the species of 
Eulabes are called hill mynas. Mina, maina, and minor are merely variants of 
myna. 
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