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of the wings, the back, and the rectrices purple-black. In all, the basal portion of the 
body feathers is white, the gradation of the quills is the same, and the form of the bill 
scarcely differs. I do not doubt that the Luzon and Cujo individuals belong to 
Bonaparte’s species; and the Negros examples only differ in their dimensions, which 
are greater. These Philippine Crows, while nearly allied to C. enca of Java and Celebes, 
are distinguishable by the under plumage being shaded with green, and not with purple, 
and by their larger size. 
Professor Schlegel (/. c.) founded on a specimen procured by Cuming in the Philip- 
pines his C. brevipennis. He did not treat C. philippinus as a distinct species either in 
his well-known Monograph or in his list of the Corvine in the Leyden Museum, but 
left it to be inferred that C. philippinus was the same as C. validus (Bijdr. t. d. Dierk. 
p. 15, C. enca). From C. validus, ap. nos, ex Malacca, Bonaparte’s species differs in 
being smaller, and in its green coloration. Whether a second species, C. brevipennis, 
occurs’in the Philippines, must remain for future collectors to ascertain. Mr. G. R. 
Gray (/.¢.) has united the two titles. 
Longitudo 
ale. caude. rostr. a nar. tarsi. 
9, 11°50 8°25 1:50 2:25. Luzon. 
3. 12:25 8:75 1-75 2°35. Negros. 
oS als} 8°75 1:67 2°35. 
2. 11°50 8 1:37 2:25. Cujo. 
STURNIDZ. 
STURNINA. 
AcRIDOTHERES, Vieillot. 
126. ACRIDOTHERES CRISTATELLUS. 
The Chinese Starling or Blackbird, Kdwards, Nat. Hist. i. p. 19, pl. 19, “ China,” (1743). 
Sturnus crinibus cinereis, etc., Klein, Hist. Av. p. 64, no. 3 (1750), ex Edwards. 
Merula sinensis cristata, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 258, no. 21 (1760), ex Edwards. 
Gracula cristatella, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 165, no. 5, “ China” (1766), ex Edwards. 
Le Merle huppé de la Chine, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 367, ex Brisson; D’Aubenton, PI. 
Enl. 507. 
Merula philippensis, Brisson, apud Bp. Consp. i. p. 420, no. 6, nec Brisson ; Coll. Delattre, p. 9. 
Acridotheres fuliginosus, Blyth, J. A.S. B. xiii. p. 362, av. juv., “ Macao” (1844). 
Acridotheres philippensis (Temm.), apud Swinhoe, Ibis, 1870, p. 352, “ Hainan.” 
Acridotheres cristatellus (Linn.), Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 384, “8. China to Shanghai, westwards 
to Szechuen, Hainan, Formosa.” 
Hab, Luzon, January and April (Meyer). 
