720 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIKHS. 



Under these conditions it will be understood that the distribution of 

 the two races of Sarcops, as indicated by islands, is only tentative, while 

 the assignment of the various collectors to their proper places is more 

 or less a matter of guesswork. 



Genus GOODFELLOWIA Hartert, 1903. 



Bill shorter than head; nostrils overhung by aiitrorse frontal plunu's: 

 bare space around each eye much smaller than in Sarcops; a long crest 

 of decomposed feathers springing from the crown ; tail much longer than 

 wing ; rectrices graduated ; plumage black, glossed with steel-green ; a 

 large white patch on rump. 



735. GOODFELLOWIA MIRANDA Martert. 

 SPECTACLED STARLING. 



(,'oodfellowia miranda HABTEBT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1903), 11; Novit. 

 Zool. (1906), 13, 758, pi. 2, fig. 2; McGfiEGOK an.l \\'<>K< -KSTKK. llan.l- 

 List ( 1906), 108. 



Tu-ca-ling', Bagobo of Mount Apo. 

 Mindanao ( Goodfelloir, M earns ) . 



Adult (sexes alike). Black, glossed with dark green; win.irs and lail 

 blackish brown with little or no gloss; wing-lining and a large patch on 

 lower back and rump white. "Iris dark brown. l;uv skin round 

 yellow; bill yellow, shading into greenish yellow at the base; toes 

 dirty olive or blackish olive; legs olive-yellow." (Ooodfellow.) Length. 

 about 300 mm. A male measures: Wing, 116; tail, 156; culmen from 

 base, 22; tarsus, 25; crest, 31; difference between longest and shortest 

 rectrices, 90. A female, wing, 114; tail, 162; culmen from base, &5; 

 tarsus, 30; crest, 25; difference between longest and shortest rectrices, 

 92. 



This peculiar starling is confined to the highlands of Mindanao. 



Genus EULABES Cuvier, 1817. 



Bill shorter than head and very stout; culmen strongly curved; nasal 

 feathers antrorse, but short and not concealing the nostrils; feathers on 

 head very short, those of lores and a broad band of feathers on each side 

 of crown and occiput pile-like ; a bare space below each eye ; a bare space 

 behind each eye ending in a fleshy flap, or wattle, on nape; tail square, 

 less than one-half the wing and not extending beyond the very stout legs 

 and feet; plumage black, glossed with bine and purple; a white bar on 

 the wing. 



