ta2 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Genus CORONE Kaup, 1829. 
First primary about equal in length to the outer secondaries, the latter 
shorter than some of the mor@™nterior ones; tail much rounded and 
about as long as the longest secondaries. 
737. CORONE PHILIPPINA (Bonaparte). 
PHILIPPINE CROW. 
Corvus philippinus BONAPARTE, Compt. Rend. (1853), 37, 830; Grant and 
WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 234 (eggs); WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 100 
(habist) . 
Corone philippina SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1877), 3, 42; McGrecor 
and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 110. 
Wak, in general use. 
Babuyan Claro (McGregor); Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan (Steere Ezp., 
Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett, McGregor) ; Bongao (Bartsch) ; 
Cagayancillo (McGregor) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Caluya (Porter) ; Camiguin §. 
(Murray); Catanduanes (Whitehead); Cebu (Everett, Bourns & Worcester, 
We egy 4 ‘ ; “verelt); Fuga (MeGregor) ; 
Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Libagao (Porter); Lubang 
(McGregor) ; Luzon (Cuming, Meyer, Everett, Whitehead, Bourns & Worcester, 
McGregor); Maestre de Campo (McGregor & Worcester) ; Marinduque (Steere 
Exp.); Masbate (McGregor); Mindanao (Murray, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns 
& Worcester); Mindoro (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Negros: 
(Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead) ; Palawan (Hve- 
rett) ;* Panaon (Hverett); Panay (Murray, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; 
Polillo (McGregor); Romblon (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Samar (Steere 
Exap., Bourns & Worcester); Semirara (Worcester); Sibay (McGregor & Wor- 
cester) ; Sibutu (Hverett); Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Siquijor 
(Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns & 
Worcester); Tablas (Bourns & Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester) ; 
Ticao (McGregor); Verde (McGregor). 
Adult.—Entirely black, the feathers white basally; feathers, of neck 
at least, more white than black; upper parts including greater part of 
wing glossed with purple; alula and primary-coverts glossed with dark 
green; two outer primaries without gloss; under parts with a slight 
bluish gloss. Length, about 500 mm. A male from Siquijor measures: 
Wing, 325; tail, 230; culmen from base, 65; bill from nostril, 47; 
tarsus, 52. A female from Bohol, wing, 300; tail, 220; culmen from 
base, 60; bill from nostril, 41; tarsus, 48. 
Three eggs of the Philippine crow collected by Steere in Marinduque, 
May, 1888, are thus described: “Shape ovate. Ground-color pale sea- 
green, thickly mottled all over, especially towards the larger end, with 
olive-brown ; under-markings faint gray. Measurements 43 mm. by 28 
* The Philippine crow is given in Table II of Everett’s paper on the birds of 
Palawan, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1889), 225, and this record is repeated in McGregor 
and Worcester’s Hand-List (1906), 110, but there appears to be no other evidence 
of the occurrence of the Philippine crow in Palawan. 
