Turnix suluensis Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 83;
McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 8.
Sulu (Mearns).
"Adult female (type and only specimen).--General color of upper parts
walnut-brown, the feathers finely banded and vermiculated with gray and
black; top of head clove-brown, the feathers almost imperceptibly edged
with gray, divided by a median stripe of isabella-color extending from
the base of the bill to the occiput; sides of head and neck buffy
white speckled with clove-brown; nape walnut-brown, the feathers
edged with gray; mantle walnut-brown, the feathers edged with gray,
and vermiculated with black, gray, and traces of very pale cinnamon;
lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts clove-brown, the feathers
narrowly edged with gray on the back and upper rump, more broadly with
cinnamon on the lower rump and upper tail-coverts; tail grayish drab,
the feathers perceptibly cross-banded with wavy lines of dusky, edged
with cinnamon on outer webs, with middle pair of feathers extending 7
mm. beyond the next pair; scapulars and humerals conspicuously edged
externally with golden buff and cinnamon; primaries grayish drab, the
two outer ones edged externally with wood-brown; secondaries darker
drab, edged with cinnamon on the outer web; greater wing-coverts
cinnamon, drab at base, with a subterminal black spot on the outer
web; lesser wing-coverts cinnamon-rufous, edged with buff, with a
subterminal black ocellus; chin, upper throat, and malar region,
whitish, the last speckled with blackish brown; lower neck and upper
breast clay-color, bordered by a chain of oval black spots, the
largest 3 mm. in length; lower breast and middle of belly whitish;
sides of lower neck, and sides of chest and breast, chestnut mixed
with black and clay-color; flanks light clay-color; under tail-coverts
darker clay-color; lining of wings pale clay-color and pale grayish
drab. Length of skin, 120; wing, 68; tail, 31; culmen, 11.5; depth
of bill at angle of gonys, 3.8; tarsus, 19.5." (Mearns.)