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736. EULABES PALAWANENSIS Sharpe. 
PALAWAN WATTLED MYNA.* 
Eulabes palawanensis SHArre, Ibis (1888), 202; McGrecor and WORCESTER, 
Hand-List (1906), 109. 
Mainatus palawanensis Suarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 104. 
Balabae (Everett); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Palawan (Steere, 
Everett, Lempriere, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino, 
White). 
Adult (sexes alike) —Black, most of the plumage with a slight green 
gloss, but the gloss slightly bluish on throat, breast, and hind-neck, pur- 
plish on mantle; second to seventh primaries with a wide white band, but 
on the second confined to the inner web and sometimes indicated by a 
small white spot on the outer web of the eighth. A male from Palawan 
measures: Wing. 162; tail. 75; culmen from base, 30; bill from nostril. 
19; tarsus, 36. A female from the same locality, wing, 168; tail, 74; 
culmen from base, 32; bill from nostril, 21; tarsus, 36. 
“This wattled myna is common in Palawan and extremely abundant 
in the Calamianes Islands. It is a very noisy bird, and some of its cries 
are astonishingly human. Iris very dark brown; legs and feet bright 
yellow; nails yellow at base, white at tip; bill orange-red, yellow at tip; 
bare flesh of head bright yellow. Five males from the Calamianes aver- 
age: Length, 281; wing, 106; tail, 77; tarsus, 34; middle toe with claw, 
36. Four females from the same locality, length, 273; tail, 73; culmen, 
30; tarsus, 33; middle toe with claw, 33.”  (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
Family CORVIDA. 
Bill large and compressed, longer than head; culmen strongly curved ; 
gonys straight; nostrils completely hidden by stiff antrorse frontal 
feathers, the longest of which equal nearly one-half the length of bill 
from base; first primary much shorter than second, but more than one- 
half the length of wing; second primary much shorter than third, fourth 
longest, third and fifth nearly equal; rectrices broad; tail slightly or 
much rounded; feet and tarsi strong, the latter less than culmen from 
base. Plumage entirely black, glossed with purple and green; sexes alike. 
(Genera. 
a’. Tail much rounded; first primary about equal to the outer secondaries. 
Corone (p. 722) 
a’, Tail very slightly rounded the rectrices subequal; first primary shorter than 
BabNes CANARY CE CUNTRLAT NOG oF wna cm at ace rms a rene pee Corvus (p. 723) 
* See note under crested myna. 
