342. EUDYNAMYS FRATER McGregor.
ALLIED KOEL.
- Eudynamis frater McGregor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 21; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 63.
Calayan (McGregor); Fuga (Whitehead, McGregor).
Male.—Entire plumage glossy blue-black. Bill dusky greenish; iris crimson; legs and feet dark steel-blue; nails brown. Length, 490; wing, 241; tail, 237; exposed culmen, 31; bill from nostril, 22.
Female.—Above dark brown with a faint purple gloss on wing-coverts and scapulars; feathers of crown, neck, and sides of face with rufous shaft-stripes; back, rump, and wings with small tawny-rufous spots, quills and tail barred with same color; lower parts buff (inclining to white on middle of breast) barred with black; a more or less distinct white band from base of bill to below posterior edge of ear-coverts, wider posteriorly; below this a wide band of dark rufous mixed with black; ear-coverts similar; chin and throat striped with black and tawny-buff. Bill dusky greenish; iris crimson; legs and feet steel-blue; nails brown. Length, 490; wing, 240; tail, 227; exposed culmen, 31; bill from nostril, 22.
Subfamily CENTROPODINÆ.
Genus CENTROPUS Illiger, 1811.
Bill powerful, strongly curved; legs and feet strong, tarsus naked; claw of hind toe very long and slender, nearly straight; wings short, rounded, and curved to the body, primaries but little longer than secondaries; tail very long, its feathers wide and soft; feathers of head, neck, and throat coarse and decomposed, their shafts strong and polished.