[99] This recently published description is based upon one specimen and the species is compared with neither Chibia borneensis nor C. pectoralis. Mearns’s description follows:
“Characters.—Very similar to Chibia palawanensis, differing only in its somewhat larger size, shallower forking of the tail, the narrower and very much smaller spangles on the breast, and in the absence of metallic green on the upper tail-coverts.
“Measurements of skin (type and only specimen).—Length, 260; wing, 136; tail, 126; emargination of tail, 16; culmen (chord), 28.5; tarsus, 24.5.” (Mearns.) [↑]
[100] The description of Chibia borneensis follows: “C. similis C. pectorali ex insulis Sulaensibus, sed plumis lanceolatis colli lateralis metallice chalybeo-viridibus nec purpurascentibus, et maculis jugularibus et praepectoralibus valde minoribus et conspicue metallicis chalybeo-viridibus distinguenda. Long. tot. 10, culm. 1.3, alae 5.9, caudae, 4.5, tarsi 0.85.” (Sharpe.) [↑]
[101] The name myna is restricted by Jerdon, and other writers on Indian ornithology, to the species of Acridotheres and Temenuchus, while the species of Eulabes are called hill mynas. Mina, maina, and minor are merely variants of myna. [↑]
[102] The status of “Sarcops lowii” is doubtful; the description follows: “This species appears to be distinguished from the ordinary Sarcops calvus by its gray mantle, which resembles the rest of the back, and by the color of the under surface, which is silvery gray with a narrow blackish line down the center of the body, whereas in S. calvus the mantle is black, and the under surface also, only the flanks being gray.” (Sharpe.) [↑]
[103] See note under crested myna. [↑]
[104] 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. [↑]