Mar-tí-nez, Manila.

Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, Celestino, Bartsch). Central and southern China.

Adult (sexes similar).—General color black, slightly ashy on the breast; crown and back faintly glossed with green and purple; under tail-coverts and rectrices tipped with white; a wide basal band of white across the primaries. Male from Manila: Iris yellow-ocher; bill pale green, brown at base; legs and feet dark yellow; nails horn-color. Length, 270; wing, 134; tail, 83; culmen from base, 25; bill from nostril, 17; tarsus, 39. Female from Manila: Iris light orange with a narrow outer yellow ring; bill greenish white; legs dull yellow; nails horn-gray. Length, 250; wing, 130; tail, 81; culmen from base, 25; bill from nostril, 16; tarsus, 38.

“Young.—Brown instead of black, with no crest on the head, only the frontal plumes being close-set. ‘Bill yellowish horn-color; roof of mouth, inside of bill, and tip of tongue yellow, the rest flesh-color with a bluish-black tinge; legs light brownish yellow on the under parts, sole, and joints of scales, the rest purplish brown, darker on the claws; iris slight greenish yellow.’ (R. Swinhoe.)” (Sharpe.)

“Very abundant about the city of Manila. Quite common about the Laguna de Bay.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)

Genus SARCOPS Walden, 1875.

Bill stout and as long as head; culmen gently curved; base of upper mandible covered with short feathers as far as the nostrils, but the latter exposed; rictal bristles short; sides and top of head naked, except a narrow median line; tail a little shorter than wing; rectrices graduated; upper parts largely silvery gray; wings, tail, and under parts black.

733. SARCOPS CALVUS (Linnæus).
GRAY-BACKED COLETO.