Turnix celestinoi McGregor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A,
292, 317.
Bohol (McGregor).
Adult male (type and only specimen).--Ground-color of upper parts
black; feathers of head narrowly edged with dull buff, paler on
forehead; a narrow median line of pale buff from forehead to nape; hind
neck, mantle, rump, and tail-coverts with wavy, broken, cross-lines
of dark rusty buff, obsolete on neck; lores and side of head light
buff with small black tips to feathers; a patch on each side of neck
pale vinaceous-buff with narrow black cross-lines; chin and throat
white, each feather with narrow buff tips, middle of abdomen white;
rest of lower parts rusty buff or clay-color, a trifle lighter than
in T. worcesteri; each feather on sides of breast marked with a
wide black bar; primaries, secondaries, primary-coverts, and alula
drab-gray; first primary and first feather of alula edged exteriorly
with ocherous-buff; secondary-coverts and inner secondaries with
wide edges of ocherous-buff preceded by large black spots or bars;
wing-lining and axillars drab-gray; tail bluish slate and hidden by
the long coverts. Length, 130; wing, 65.5; tail, 18.1; exposed culmen,
11.5; depth of bill at angle of gonys, 4; tarsus, 20; middle toe with
claw, 18.5.
The only specimen known was taken on a grassy hill near the town
of Guindulman, in Bohol, June 22, 1906. It is closely related to
T. suluensis.