Hypsipetes fugensis Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1895), 5, 2;
Ibis (1896), 113; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 214; Sharpe, Hand-List
(1901), 3, 310; McGregor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 31;
McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 79.
Sa-mot', Calayan.
Calayan (McGregor); Fuga (Whitehead, McGregor, Mearns).
Male and female.--Top of head and crest dark brown, the feathers edged
with slate-gray; back, rump, and tail-coverts warm brown or light
seal-brown, the feathers edged with olive-gray; wings and tail dark
brown; rectrices edged with olive-gray; chin, fore part of throat, and
cheeks hoary gray; a band of dark reddish brown across ear-coverts and
lower throat, many of the feathers of throat with white spots on the
tips of the shafts; rest of under parts ashy brown, becoming fulvous
on flanks and thighs; feathers on median part of breast tipped with
white; middle of abdomen white. Iris reddish brown; bill, legs, and
nails dark brown. Five males from Fuga measure: Wing, 123 to 126;
tail, 119 to 124; culmen from base, 27 to 29; bill from nostril,
16.5 to 18; tarsus, 19 to 23.
"Adult male and female.--Most nearly allied to H. squamiceps and
H. pryeri, having the chestnut ear-coverts united by a band of the
same color extending across the throat, but the top of the head,
which is almost devoid of a crest, and the neck are brown, like the
back, instead of dark slate-gray; and the white tips to the feathers
of the breast and belly are almost entirely absent, or only faintly
indicated along the middle line of the under parts. Length, 267;
culmen, 29; wing, 123; tail, 117; tarsus, 21.5." (Grant.)