494 MANUAL OP PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Male. Nasal plumes, lores, crown, and nape black; forehead white; 

 cheeks and ear-coverts white, the latter tipped with black; rest of upper 

 parts ashy gray ; under parts entirely white ; thighs gray ; wings blackish 

 brown; secondaries with a narrow white bar across the middle of their 

 length and some of their edges gray; primaries with white patches near 

 middle of inner webs, and some with a white spot on outer web ; rectrices 

 black, all but the middle pair with long white tips. Length, about 200 ; 

 wing, 98 ; tail, 95 ; culmen from base, 14; bill from nostril, 9.5 ; tarsus, 16. 



Female. Similar to the male but crown, nape, and post-ocular area 

 gray like the back; sides of breast mottled or obsoletely barred with 

 gray. Wing, 97 ; tail, 98 ; culmen from base, 14 ; bill from nostril, ; 

 tarsus, 15. 



This plain-colored species appears in the Philippines during migration 

 only and is, as a rule, very rare. At times, however, it is found in 

 considerable numbers. 



"We shot a single specimen in Palawan. Length, 190; wing, 96 ; tail, 

 100; tarsus, 17; middle toe with claw, 15. Bill, legs, feet, and nails 

 black." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Genus LALAGE Boie, 1826. 



Bill moderate in length and rather slender, as deep as wide at nostril ; 

 wing decidedly longer than tail ; rectrices moderately broad ; tarsus strong. 

 Plumage black, white, and gray ; tail black, tipped with white ; wing black 

 with a large white patch on secondaries and on greater and median 

 coverts. 



Species. 



a 1 . Forehead black; no white band over eye; larger; length, about 200 mm. 



ft 1 . Larger; wing, about 120 mm.; tail, 86 melanoleuca (p. 494) 



b 2 . Smaller; wing, about 105 mm.; tail, 82 minor (p. 495) 



a*. Forehead and a wide band over eye white: length, about 180 mm. 



niger (p. 495) 

 465. LALAGE MELANOLEUCA (Blyth). 



BLACK AND WHITE LALAGE. 



Pseudolalage melanoleuca BLYTH, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1861), 30, 97; 



WALDEN, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 178, pi. 29, fig. 2. 



Lalage melanoleuca SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 91, 471; Hand- 

 List (1901), 3, 303; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 103 (habits) ; MCGREGOR 

 and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 78. 



Luzon (Martens, Heriot, Everett, Whitehead, Steere Exp.) ; Mindoro (Steere 

 Exp., McGregor); Semirara (Worcester)* 



Male. Forehead, crown, sides of head to lower border of eye, hind 

 neck, and mantle black, glossed with green; lower back, rump, and tail- 



* No specimen of L. melanoleuca was collected on Semirara but "a bird, probably 

 of this species, was seen." 



