482 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



447. ARTAMIDES STRIATUS (Boddaert). 

 LUZON ARTAMIDES. 



Corvus striatus BODDAEBT, Tabl. PI. Enl. (1783), 38. 



Graucalus striatus WALDEN, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 175, pi. 30, fig. 1. 

 Artamides striatus SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 18 (part); 

 Hand-List (1901), 3, 289; McGsEGOB and WOBCESTER, Hand-List 

 (1906), 76. 



Ba-buy ba-buy-an, Manila. 



Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead, Mc- 

 Gregof) . 



Male. General color, except remiges and rectrices, dark gray ; feathers 

 of rump fringed with white; feathers in front of eyes and covering 

 nostrils, a narrow line above eye, a small patch on jaw, and a few feathers 

 on chin black. Iris straw-yellow; bill, legs, and nails black. Length, 

 about 280; wing, 163; tail, 120; culmen from base, 24; bill from nostril, 

 20; tarsus, 25. From a Lubang specimen. 



Female. General plumage dark gray; iVatlu-is o! rump and upper tail- 

 coverts with white tips and subtenninal black bars; abdomen, crissum, 

 wing-lining, and axillars black with narrow white bars ; lores and feathers 

 around eyes blackish. Wing, 170; tail, 125; culmen from base, 26; 

 tarsus, 26. From a Luzon specimen. 



448. ARTAMIDES KOCH I K utter. 

 KOCH'S ARTAMIDES. 



Artamides kochii KUTTEB, Orn. Centralbl. (1882), 183; Journ. fur Orn. 

 (1883), 19 of reprint; SHABPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 289; MCGBEGOB 

 and WOBCESTEB, Hand-List (1906), 76. 

 Artamides mindanensis STEEBE, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 



14. 



Artamides kochi WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 102. 



Basilan (Everett, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol (McGregor) ; Leyte 

 (Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Jacquinot, Steere, Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Steere 

 Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino, Goodfellow) ; Nipa (Everett) ; Pannon 

 (Everett) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead). 



Male. Rump and tail-coverts barred with black and white; lower 

 breast and abdomen barred with black and white, posteriorly the white 

 bars wider than the black bars; under tail-coverts white, each feather 

 with two or three narrow incomplete black bars. Iris pale yellow. 

 Length, about 280; wing, 162; tail, 122; culmen from base, 29; bill from 

 nostril, 23 ; tarsus, 25. 



Female. Above similar to the male; lores and feathers over nostrils 

 mottled with white ; outermost rectrices tipped with white, and each with 

 a small subterminal black spot ; next pair of rectrices slightly tipped with 

 white; entire under parts barred with black and white, the black bars 

 narrow and incomplete as in the male. Wing, 155; tail, 115; culmen 

 from base, 28 ; bill from nostril, 22; tarsus, 25. 



