JETHEOPSAR. 717 



"This small species of glossy starling was abundant in the high forest 

 above the Bagobo village of Todaya, where small flocks flew with great 

 speed above the treetops, only alighting on the highest dry branches, 

 where they were with difficulty reached by shot." (M earns.) 



Genus ^ETHEOPSAR Sharpe, 1890. 



Frontal and nasal feathers long, antrorse or erect, and concealing the 

 nostrils ; feathers of crown, occiput, and ear-coverts lanceolate ; tail short 

 and rounded; plumage nearly all black or slate-gray; tips of primary- 

 coverts and a large section of primaries pure white, forming a conspicuous 

 wing-bar. 



732. /ETHEOPSAR CRISTATELLUS (Linnaeus). 



CRESTED MYNA.* 



Gracula cristatella LINN.EUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 109. 

 Acridotheres cristatellus SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 92; 



WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 241. 

 JEtheopsar cristatellus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 666; 



MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 108. 



Mar-ti-nez, Manila. 



Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, Celestino, 

 Bartsch ) . Central and southern China. 



Adult (sexes similar). General color black, slightly ashy on the 

 breast; crown and back faintly glossed with green and purple; under 

 tail-coverts and rectrices tipped with white; a wide basal band of white 

 across the primaries. Male from Manila: Iris yellow-ocher ; bill pale 

 green, brown at base; legs and feet dark yellow; nails horn-color. 

 Length, 270; wing, 134; tail, 83; culmen from base, 25; bill from 

 nostril, 17; tarsus, 39. Female from Manila: Iris light orange with 

 a narrow outer yellow ring; bill greenish white; legs dull yellow; nails 

 horn-gray. Length, 250; wing, 130; tail, 81; culmen from base, 25; 

 bill from nostril, 16; tarsus, 38. 



"Young. Brown instead of black, with no crest on the head, only 

 the frontal plumes being close-set. 'Bill yellowish horn-color; roof of 

 mouth, inside of bill, and tip of tongue yellow, the rest flesh-color with 

 a bluish-black tinge ; legs light brownish yellow on the under parts, sole, 

 and joints of scales, the rest purplish brown, darker on the claws; iris 

 slight greenish yellow/ (R. Swinhoe.)" (Shar-pe.) 



"Very abundant about the city of Manila. Quite common about the 

 Laguna de Bay/' (Bourns and Won-cxlcr MS.) 



* The name myna is restricted by Jerdon, and other writers on Indian orni- 

 thology, to the species of Acridotheres and Temenuchus, while the species of 

 Eulabes are called hill mynas. Mina, maina, and minor are merely variants of 

 myna. 



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