Pseudolalage minor Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890),
15.
Lalage minor Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 103; Sharpe, Hand-List
(1901), 3, 303; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 78.
Leyte (Whitehead); Mindanao (Steere Exp., Celestino); Samar
(Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead).
Male.--In color exactly like the male of L. melanoleuca, but
distinguished by its smaller size. Length, about 200. A male from
northern Mindanao measures: Wing, 104; tail, 81; culmen from base,
21; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, 20.
Female.--Differs from the female of L. melanoleuca in having the chin,
throat, and breast plumbeous gray with somewhat obscure gray bars.
"Steere's lalage is not very common; a pair shot in Samar had been
feeding on fruit and insects. Iris dark brown; legs, feet, and nails
black; upper mandible black, lower nearly so. The male measures, 197
in length; wing, 107; tail, 81; culmen, 25; tarsus, 22; middle toe
with claw, 21. A female, length, 203; wing, 106; tail, 82; culmen,
26; tarsus, 24; middle toe with claw, 18." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)