720 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Under these conditions it will be understood that the distribution of 
the two races of Sarcops, as indicated by islands, is only tentative, while 
the assignment of the various Gp eciors to their proper places is more 
or less a matter of guesswork. 
Genus GOODFELLOWIA Hartert, 1903. 
Bill shorter than head; nostrils overhung by antrorse frontal plumes; 
bare space around each eye much smaller than in Sarcops; a long crest 
of decomposed feathers springing from the crown; tail much longer than 
wing; rectrices graduated; plumage black, glossed with steel-green; a 
large white patch on rump. 
735. GOODFELLOWIA MIRANDA Hartert. 
SPECTACLED STARLING. 
Goodfellowia miranda HARTERT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1903), 11; Novit. 
Zool. (1906), 13, 758, pl. 2, fig. 2; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand- 
List ( 1906), 108. 
Tu-ca-ling’, Bagobo of Mount Apo. 
Mindanao (Goodfellow, Mearns). 
Adult (sexes alike).—Black, glossed with dark green; wings and tail 
blackish brown with little or no gloss; wing-lining and a large patch on 
lower back and rump white. “Iris dark brown, bare skin round eye 
yellow; bill yellow, shading into greenish yellow at the base; toes 
dirty olive or blackish olive; legs olive-yellow.” (Goodfellow.) Length, 
about 300 mm. A male measures: Wing, 116; tail, 156; culmen from 
base, 22; tarsus, 25; crest, 31; difference between longest and shortest 
rectrices, 90. A female, wing, 114; tail, 162; culmen from base, 25; 
tarsus, 30; crest, 25; difference between longest and shortest rectrices, 
92. 
This peculiar starling is confined to the highlands of Mindanao. 
Genus EULABES Cuvier, 1817. 
Bill shorter than head and very stout; culmen strongly curved; nasal 
feathers antrorse, but short and not concealing the nostrils; feathers on 
head very short, those of lores and a broad band of feathers on each side 
of crown and occiput pile-like ; a bare space below each eye; a bare space 
behind each eye ending in a fleshy flap, or wattle, on nape; tail square, 
less than one-half the wing and not extending beyond the very stout legs 
and feet; plumage black, glossed with blue and purple; a white bar on 
the wing. 
