722 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Genus CORONE Kaup, 1829. 



First primary about equal in length to the outer secondaries, the latter 

 shorter than some of the more interior ones; tail much rounded and 

 about as long as the longest secondaries. 



737. CORONE PHILIPPINA (Bonaparte). 

 PHILIPPINE CROW. 



Corvus philippinus BONAPARTE, Compt. Rend. (1853), 37, 830; GRANT and 

 WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 234 (eggs); WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899). 100 

 (habist). 



Corone philippina SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1877), 3, 42; MCGREGOR 

 and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 110. 



Wak, in general use. 



Babuyan Claro (McGregor) ; Bantayan (McGregor) ; Basilan (Steere Exp., 

 Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett, McGregor) ; Bongao (Bartsch) ; 

 Cagayancillo (McGregor)-, Calayan (McGregor) ; Caluya (Porter)-, Camiguin S. 

 (Murray); Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu (Everett, Bourns d Worcester, 



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Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Libagao (Porter) ; Lubang 

 (McGregor); Luzon (Cuming, Meyer, Everett, Whitehead, Bourns & Worccst* r. 

 McGregor); Maestro de Campo (McGregor & Worcester); Marinduque (Steere 

 Exp.); Masbate (McGregor}; Mindanao (Murray, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns 

 & Worcester); Mindoro (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGregor); Negros 

 (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead) ; Palawan (Eve- 

 rett) ;* Panaon (Everett) ; Panay (Murray, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; 

 Polillo (McGregor); Romblon (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor); Siiniar (Hteere 

 Exp., Bourns d Worcester); Semirara (Worcester); Sibay (McGregor d Wor- 

 cester); Sibutu (Everett); Sibuyan (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor); Siquijor 

 (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Celestino) ; Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns d 

 Worcester) ; Tablas (Bourns d Worcester) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns d Worcester) ; 

 Ticao (McGregor); Verde (McGregor). 



Adult. Entirely black, the feathers white basally; feathers, of neck 

 at least, more white than black; upper parts including greater part of 

 wing glossed with purple; alula and primary-coverts glossed with dark 

 green; two outer primaries without gloss; under parts with a slight 

 bluish gloss. Length, about 500 mm. A male from Siquijor measures : 

 Wing, 325; tail, 230; culmen from base, 65; bill from nostril, 47; 

 tarsus, 52. A female from Bohol, wing, 300; tail, 220; culmen from 

 base, 60; bill from nostril, 41; tarsus, 48. 



Three eggs of the Philippine crow collected by Steere in Marinduque, 

 May, 1888, are thus described: "Shape ovate. Ground-color pale sea- 

 green, thickly mottled all over, especially towards the larger end, with 

 olive-brown; under-markings faint gray. Measurements 43 mm. by 28 



* The Philippine crow is given in Table II of Everett's paper on the birds of 

 Palawan, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1889), 225, and this record is repeated in McGregor 

 and Worcester's Hand-List (1906), 110, but there appears to be no other evidence 

 of the occurrence of the Philippine crow in Palawan. 



