488 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



"Male. Above lead-black, lighter and wnshnl with ashy on rump and 

 upper tail-ceverts ; throat, breast, wings, and tail clear black ; flanks and 

 thighs plumbeous black; under wing- and tail-coverts white; wing-coverts 

 and outer edges of secondaries forming a white wing-bar as in Lalage; 

 feathers of tail tipped with white. 



"Female. Plumbeous gray above and below; wings and tail as in male. 

 Legs and beak black. Length, 264; wing, 133; tail, 127; culmen, 25; 

 tarsus, 22." (Steer e.) 



"Four males average as follows: Wing, 128; tail, 120; culmen, 30; 

 tarsus, 23; middle toe with claw, 21. A female, wing, 118; tail, 108; 

 culmen, 28; tarsus, 22; middle toe with claw, 21. Bill, legs, feet, and 

 nails black. Common in the woods of Panay and Negros. Always found 

 by us in flocks and usually in very high trees." (Bourns and Wor- 

 cester MS.) 



456. EDOLISOMA EVERETTI Sharpe. 



EVERETT'S CUCKOO SHRIKE. 



Edoliisoma everetti SHARPE, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1893), 3, 10; Hand-List ' 

 (1901), 3, 297; GRANT, Ibis (1896), 538; McGBEcoB and WORCESTER, 

 Hand-List (1906), 77. 



Bongao (Everett) ; Sulu (Bourns d Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns d Wor- 

 cester). 



Male. Forehead, lores, sides of face and throat black; back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts uniform gray; breast, abdomen, and crissum gray. 

 Wing, 123. 



Female. Entire head and throat gray; back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts uniform gray. 



I have seen neither a specimen nor a detailed description * of this 

 species, but there should be little difficulty in identifying it. 



"A male from Sulu measures: Length, 236; wing, 123; tail, 105; 

 culmen, 26 ; tarsus, 22 ; middle toe with claw, 24. A female, length, 229 ; 

 wing, 117; tail, 98; culmen, 26; tarsus, 23; middle toe with claw, 22. 

 Iris very dark brown; bill, legs, feet, and nails black. Quite rare and 

 seems to be confined to the forest." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



457. EDOLISOMA MINDANENSE (Tweeddale). 

 MINDANAO CUCKOO SHRIKE. 



Volvocivora mindanensis TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zbol. Soc. (1878), 947. 

 Edoliisoma mindanense SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 470; 

 Hand-List (1901), 3, 297; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 

 (1906), 77. 

 Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Mindanao (Everett). 



* Sharpe's diagnosis reads : 



"Mas a mari E. morionis ex insula Celebensi vix diversus. Foem. tamen 

 gastraeo toto cinereo concolore facile distinguenda." Sharpe should have com- 

 pared the male with E. mindanense as well as with E. morio. 



