Pseudolalage melanoleuca Blyth, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1861),
30, 97; Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 178, pl. 29, fig. 2.
Lalage melanoleuca Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4,
91, 471; Hand-List (1901), 3, 303; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 103
(habits); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 78.
Luzon (Martens, Heriot, Everett, Whitehead, Steere Exp.); Mindoro
(Steere Exp., McGregor); Semirara (Worcester). [67]
Male.--Forehead, crown, sides of head to lower border of eye, hind
neck, and mantle black, glossed with green; lower back, rump, and
tail-coverts white, the back grayish; entire under parts white; wings
and tail black, glossed with green; inner secondaries and greater
coverts with wide edges of white; inner median coverts entirely
white; quills, except first primary, edged with white on inner web;
two outermost pairs of rectrices tipped with white. Length, about
210. A male from Mindoro measures: Wing, 119; tail, 90; culmen from
base, 21; bill from nostril, 14; tarsus, 23.
Female.--Above light ashy gray, nearly white on tail-coverts;
feathers of head and mantle with dusky shaft-lines; below white;
breast obscurely barred with gray; thighs gray with darker shaft-lines;
wings and tail as in the male but with less white on median coverts. A
female from Mindoro, wing, 112; tail, 85; culmen from base, 21;
bill from nostril, 14.5; tarsus, 23.