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344. CENTROPUS CARPENTERI Mearns. 

 BATAN ISLAND COTJCAL. 



Centropus carpenteri MKARNS. Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 356; 

 McGBEGOB, ibid., 340. 



Batan (Mearns, McGregor). 



Adult. Similar to Centropus mindorensis (Steere), but slightly larger. 

 Mearns gives the following measurements : 



"Centropus carpenteri: Adult male type: Length, 440; wing, 166; 

 tail, 278; chord of culmen, 32; depth of bill, 16; tarsus, 42; middle toe 

 with claw, 44. 



"Centropus mindorensis: Average of three males: Length, 398; wing, 

 153; tail, 238; chord of culmen, 29.2; depth of bill, 13.7; tarsus, 40; 

 middle toe with claw, 42." 



Young. A young bird taken June 4 is black; upper parts including 

 wings and tail lightly glossed with green ; chin and throat slightly mottled 

 with gray; tips of primaries and secondaries slightly rufous; alula and 

 all upper wing-coverts barred with rufous. Wing, 140; tail, 112 ; culmen 

 from base, 26. 



345. CENTROPUS STEERI Bourns and Worcester. 



STEEBE'S COUCAL. 



Centropus steerii BOURNS and WORCESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. 

 Papers (1894), 1, 14; SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 166; MCGREGOR 

 and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 63. 



Mindoro (Platen, Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor). 



"Sexes alike. Forehead, crown and nape, sides of face, chin, throat, 

 and upper breast greenish black; the coarse shafts of the feathers shiny 

 black, the webs with a faint greenish tinge; hind neck and back, sides 

 of neck, wing-coverts, and breast smoky brown with faint greenish 

 tinge ; hind back and rump slaty black, tips of feathers with greenish tinge ; 

 upper tail-coverts and upper surface of tail uniform dull metallic green ; 

 shafts of feathers jeit-black from base to tip ; upper surface of wings earthy 

 brown with metallic green gloss like the tail, except on the four outer 

 primaries, which have little gloss; abdomen browner than breast and 

 with less metallic wash ; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts like rump ; 

 under surface of tail black with faint metallic blue gloss; under wing- 

 coverts and axillars like breast; under surface of wing uniform blackish 

 brown. Seven males measure as follows: Length, 424; wing, 150; tail, 

 216; culmen, 40; tarsus, 42. A female measures, 495 in length; wing, 

 158; tail, 233; culmen, 44; tarsus, 43." (Bourns and Worcester.) 



Steere's coucal is somewhat like the Mindoro coucal but its breast and 

 neck are smoky brown while the entire plumage of the Mindoro coucal is 

 black glossed with green. The two species are fairly abundant in Min- 

 doro and inhabit thick grass patches and jungle. 



