Thriponax mindorensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere
Exped. (1890), 8; Grant, Ibis (1896), 473; Sharpe, Hand-List
(1900), 2, 231; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 67.
Ma-nuc'-toc, Mindoro.
Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester, Everett,
McGregor, Porter).
Adult.--Very much like T. javensis but clearly distinguished from
that species by having a wide light buff or white band across the
lower back; from T. hargitti it differs in having a more slender bill
which is entirely black. A female measures: Length, 394; wing, 215;
tail, 170; culmen from base, 47; bill from nostril, 35; width of bill
at base, 18; tarsus, 31.
"Very abundant in the interior of Mindoro. Two females average, 381
in length; wing, 191; tail, 145; culmen, 45; tarsus, 27; middle toe
with claw, 37. Iris straw-yellow; legs and feet leaden; nails nearly
black; bill black." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)