EULABES. 721 



736. EULABES PALAWANENSIS Sharpe. 

 PALAWAN WATTLED MYNA.* 



!: ii kibes palaivanensis SHABPE, Ibis (1888), 202; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, 



Hand-List (1906), 109. 

 Mainatus palawanensis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 104. 



Balabac (Everett) ; Calamianes (Bourns d Worcester) ; Palawan (Steere, 

 Everett, Lempriere, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino, 

 White). 



Adult (sexes alike). Black, most of the plumage with a slight green 

 gloss, but the gloss slightly bluish on throat, breast, and hind-neck, pur- 

 plish on mantle: second to seventh primaries with a wide white band, but 

 on the second confined to the inner web and sometimes indicated by a 

 small white spot on the outer web of the eighth. A male from Palawan 

 measures: Wing. 162; tail. 75; culmen from base, 30; bill from nostril. 

 19; tarsus, 30. A female from the same locality, wing, 168; tail, 74; 

 culmen from base, 3*2; bill from nostril, 21; tarsus, 36. 



"This wattled myna is common in Palawan and extremely abundant 

 in the Calamianes Islands. It is a very noisy bird, and some of its cries 

 are astonishingly human. Iris very dark brown; legs and feet bright 

 yellow ; nails yellow at base, white at tip ; bill orange-red, yellow at tip ; 

 bare flesh of head bright yellow. Five males from the Calamianes aver- 

 age: Length, 281; wing, 106; tail, 77; tarsus, 34; middle toe with claw, 

 36. Four females from the same locality, length, 273; tail, 73; culmen, 

 30; tarsus, 33; middle toe with claw, 33." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Family CORVID-ffi. 



Bill large and compressed, longer than head; culmen strongly curved; 

 gonys straight; nostrils completely hidden by stiff antrorse frontal 

 feathers, the longest of which equal nearly one-half the length of bill 

 from base; first primary much shorter than second, but more than one- 

 half the length of wing; second primary much shorter than third, fourth 

 longest, third and fifth nearly equal; rectrices broad; tail slightly or 

 much rounded; feet and tarsi strong, the latter less than culmen from 

 base. Plumage entirely black, glossed with purple and green ; sexes alike. 



Genera. 



a 1 . Tail much rounded : first primary about equal to the outer secondaries. 



Corone (p. 722) 



a 2 . Tail very slightly rounded the rectrices subequal ; first primary shorter than 

 the outer secondaries Corvus (p. 723) 



* See note under crested mvna. 



