Chætura picina Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 944, pl. 59;
Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 16, 487; Sharpe, Hand-List
(1900), 2, 92; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 59.
Leyte (Whitehead); Mindanao (Everett).
Adult.--"Black with a blue gloss, greenish in some lights;
chin, throat, and larger under wing-coverts pure white. Wing,
161; tail, 32." (Tweeddale.) "Iris dark brown; bill black; legs
lead-gray." (Whitehead.)
This species is known only from the type, a female collected near
Zamboanga, Mindanao, and from three specimens taken in Leyte by
Whitehead.
Subfamily MICROPODINÆ.
Genera.
a1. Smaller; toes all directed forward, but in pairs, two toes
on each side of the median tarsal line; plumage nearly uniform
brown. ... Tachornis (p. 360)
a2. Larger; toes all directed forward and at equal intervals; chin,
throat, and rump white. ... Micropus (p. 361)
Genus TACHORNIS Gosse, 1847.
Toes all directed forward, in pairs, two toes on each side of the
median tarsal line, none of them reversible; tail deeply forked,
its feathers narrow; plumage nearly uniform in color without white
markings.