386 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



349. CENTROPUS MELANOPS Lesson. 

 BLACK-EYED COUCAL. 



Centropus nielanops LESSON, Traite" (1831), 137; CASSIN, Ornith. Wilkes 

 Exped. (1858), 249, atlas pi. 22, fig. 1; SHELLEY, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 (1891), 19, 365; SHABPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 168; MCGREGOR and 

 WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 64. 



Basilan (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol 

 (McGregor) ; Leyte ( Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Peale, Everett, Koch d Schadenberg, 

 Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino, Goodfelloic) ; Nipa (Everett) ; Samar 

 (Steere Exp., Whitehead). 



Adult (sexes similar). Head, neck, mantle, and lower parts to middle 

 of breast buff, lighter on crown and chin; forehead, lores, cheeks, and 

 eyebrow black forming a mask; wings and scapulars bright chestnut; 

 tips of primaries dark brown; remainder of back, tail, and under parts 

 black, glossed with bluish green; under wing-coverts blackish. Iris red; 

 bill, legs, and claws black. Length of a male from Basilan, 406; 

 wing, 165; tail, 230; culmen from base, 38; tarsus, 40. A male from 

 Bohol measures: Wing, 170; tail, 235; culmen from base, 40; tarsus, 43. 



"Frequents thick tangles of vines in deep woods. Very common in 

 Mindanao. Much rarer in Samar. 



"Four males measure, 412 in length; wing, 149; tail, 209; cul- 

 men, 35; tarsus, 38; middle toe with claw, 41. Four females, length, 

 441; wing, 155; tail, 236; culmen, 36; tarsus, 41; middle toe with 

 claw, 42. 



"The above specimens are from Mindanao. Birds from Samar average 

 slightly larger. Eyes dull red ; legs and feet blue-black to black ; bill and 

 nails black." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



350. CENTROPUS UNIRUFUS (Cabanis and Heine). 



RUFOUS COUCAL. 

 Pyrrhocentor unirufus CABANIS and HEINE, Mus. Hein. (1862), 4, 118 



(note). 



Centropus unirufu* SHELLEY, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 367; 

 SHABPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 168; MCGREGOB and WOBCESTEB, Hand- 

 List (1906), 64. 



Luzon (Heriot, Whitehead, Celestino). 



"Adult. Entire plumage deep rufous, slightly darker above than 

 below; the feathers from the forehead to the mantle have darker glossy 

 shafts than those of the throat and fore part of the chest ; the quills with 

 broad brown ends. Bill green, passing into yellow toward the tip and 

 on the edges; legs olive-brown. Length, 400; culmen, 38; wing, 160; 

 tail, 229; tarsus, 43." (Shelley.) 



A female from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 160; tail, 

 250 ; culmen from base, 35 ; tarsus, 40 ; middle toe with claw, 44. 



