Tachornis infumatus McGregor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1903), 1, 5.
Tachornis pallidior McGregor, Bur. Govt. Lab. (1904), 25, 27;
McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 59.
Bohol (McGregor); Cebu (McGregor); Luzon (McGregor); Mindanao
(Celestino); Ticao (McGregor).
Adult.--Upper parts dark brown; nearly black on head, neck, and back
which have a faint green gloss; feathers of rump and upper tail-coverts
lighter brown and narrowly fringed with gray in unworn plumage, the
tail-coverts with dark shafts; wing-feathers blackish brown, glossy on
outer webs; short primaries narrowly edged with white on inner webs;
tail of the same color as wings; sides of head brown; chin and throat
light drab-gray, merging gradually into the dark drab-gray of the lower
breast and abdomen where the feathers are narrowly edged with whitish;
stiff feathers in front of eye white with brown tips. Length in flesh,
114; wing, 119; lateral rectrices, 50; central rectrices, 31.
This species is easily recognized by the deeply-forked tail and
peculiar paired toes; it is a near relative of Tachornis infumata from
which it differs chiefly in having a paler chin and throat. It has
been found in small numbers in the islands from which it is recorded.