Pseudoptynx gurneyi Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 940,
pl. 58; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 284; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 46.
Mindanao (Everett).
Adult male.--"Sides of face bright pure unmarked rufous; lengthened
stiff plumes springing from base of maxilla rufous, mixed with tawny,
and many with dark brown shafts and tipped with dark brown; space above
front of eyes, uniting on forehead and extending back over eyes, pale
tawny-rufous; crown and occiput dark rufous, many of the feathers with
a broad dark brown mesial stripe; nape and sides of neck pure rufous;
lengthened ear-tufts rufous, some with very narrow brown mesial linear
markings near their apices; plumes bordering facial disk albescent
tawny, some almost pure white, tipped with dark brown; chin and upper
throat tawny-rufous; middle of throat white; breast and remainder of
lower surface pure rufous, more dilute on lengthened tibial plumes
and under tail-coverts; a few pectoral plumes with large, dark brown,
terminal drops; many abdominal plumes, with elongated dark brown,
central stripes; back rufous, minutely freckled with brown, each
feather with a bold, irregular, dark brown central stripe; scapulars
like back, but some of the shorter and outer ones albescent tawny
on outer webs; dark brown central marks so arranged that the back,
together with the scapulars, appears to have three parallel dark
brown stripes running down it; rump and upper tail-coverts rufous
brown, with darker shafts; rectrices brown, minutely freckled with
pale rufous, and with eight or nine rufous cross-bands; lesser and
median wing-coverts brown, freckled with rufous, each with a narrow
central brown line; greater coverts brown on inner web, freckled with
rufous on outer web; quills brown, alternately banded with freckled
brown and pale rufous; tertiaries pure rufous, with traces of dark
brown along the shafts; edge of wing white; lining yellowish white;
some of the under carpal coverts rufous; thigh and tarsal coverts
pale rufous and tawny white. 'Iris warm brown; bill grayish white;
feet pale gray; claws white tipped with dark gray.' (Everett.) Wing,
236; tarsus, 46; culmen without cere, 28; middle toe, 35." (Tweeddale.)
This species differs from P. philippensis in its smaller size, more
rufous under surface, darker upper surface, and finer dark markings
of the mantle.