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of the wings, the hack, 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 (I. 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 

 liis well-known Monograph or in his list of the Corvinw in the Leyden Museum, but 

 left it to be inferred that C. pMlippiiius was the same as C. validus (Bijdr. t. d. Dierk. 

 p. 13, 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 (I. c.) has united the two titles. 



2. 11-50 

 rf. 12-25 

 2. 12-13 

 S. 11-50 



AcEiDOTHERES, VieiUot. 



126. ACEIDOTHEEES CRIST ATELLUS. 



The Chinese Starling or Blackbird, Edwards, Nat. Hist. i. p. 19, pi. 19, " China," (1743). 



Sturnus crinibus cinereis, etc., Klein, Hist. Av. p. 64, no. 3 (1750), ex Edwards. 



Merula sinensis cristata, Briss. Om. ii. p. 253, no. 21 (1760), ex Edwards. 



Gracula cristatella, Linn. S. N. i. p. 165, no. 5, " China" (1766), ex Edwards. 



Le Merle hiippe de la Chine, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 367, ex Brisson ; D'Auhenton, PI. 



Enl. 507. 

 Merula philippetisis, Brisson, apud Bp. Cousp. i. p. 420, no. 6, nee Brisson; Coll. Delattre, p. 9. 

 Acridofheres fulifftJiosus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 362, av.juv., " Macao " (1844) . 

 Acridotheres philippensis (Temm.), apud Swinhoe, Ihis, 1870, p. 352, "Hainan." 

 Acridotheres a-istatellus (Linn.), Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 384, " S. China to Shanghai, westwards 



to Szechuen, Hainan, Formosa." 



Tldb. Luzon, January and April {Meyer). 



