[_Motacilla_] _philippensis_ Forster, Ind. Zool., 1781, p. 41.
(Type locality, Philippines.)
_Sturnus philippensis_ Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 302
(Palau).
_Geographic range._--Breeds in Japan. Winters to the Philippine
Islands. In Micronesia: Palau Islands--exact locality unknown.
_Remarks._--Mayr (1945a:302) records this starling as a migrant visitor
to the Palau Islands. Coultas obtained an immature female of this
species at Palau on October 13, 1931.
=Sturnus cineraceus= Temminck