VISAYAN CUCKOO SHRIKE.

Edoliisoma (Graucalus) panayensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere

Exped. (1890), 14.

Edoliisoma panayense Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 103; Sharpe, Hand-List

(1901), 3, 294; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 77.

Guimaras (Steere Exp.); Negros (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns

& Worcester, Whitehead, Keay); Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns &

Worcester).

"Male.--Above lead-black, lighter and washed with ashy on rump and

upper tail-coverts; throat, breast, wings, and tail clear black;

flanks and thighs plumbeous black; under wing- and tail-coverts white;

wing-coverts and outer edges of secondaries forming a white wing-bar

as in Lalage; feathers of tail tipped with white.

"Female.--Plumbeous gray above and below; wings and tail as in

male. Legs and beak black. Length, 264; wing, 133; tail, 127; culmen,

25; tarsus, 22." (Steere.)

"Four males average as follows: Wing, 128; tail, 120; culmen, 30;

tarsus, 23; middle toe with claw, 21. A female, wing, 118; tail, 108;

culmen, 28; tarsus, 22; middle toe with claw, 21. Bill, legs, feet,

and nails black. Common in the woods of Panay and Negros. Always

found by us in flocks and usually in very high trees." (Bourns and

Worcester MS.)

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