Pseudotharrhaleus griseipectus Mearns,
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 2; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 81.
Mindanao (Mearns).
"Adult female (type and only specimen).--Size similar to that of the
female of P. unicolor Hartert, assuming that the measurement 'wing
92.5' is a typographical error for 62.5, but the bill appears to
be 2 mm. shorter. Coloration similar to that of the male and female
of P. caudatus Grant, from which it may be readily distinguished by
the shortness of the tail, 81 mm. in the female of P. griseipectus
and 86.36 in the female of P. caudatus. The outermost tail-feather
is slender and abortive, measuring 32 mm. in length; tarsus with six
scutes; rictal bristles scarcely discernible; plumage soft and loose,
the feathers of the back and rump 35 mm. in length, with gray bases and
fluffy aftershafts; webs of rectrices decomposed and abraded apically;
general color above burnt umber, washed with vandyke-brown on rump and
upper tail-coverts; tail darker; wing-quills brownish black, the outer
webs margined with the same color as the upper parts and extending
to the outer webs of the under side of wing; head darker, inclining
to sepia, with a dirty grayish supraorbital stripe; sides of throat,
breast, and a wash down center of abdomen mouse-gray; chin and middle
of throat white, each feather with a grayish middle; sides, crissum,
and under tail-coverts like the back; breast tinged with gray. Iris
hazel; bill with maxilla black; mandible grayish horn-color; feet and
claws sepia-brown (from fresh specimens). Length, 176; alar expanse,
200; wing, 63; tail, 81; bill, measured from base of mandible, 14; bill
from nostril, 8.5; tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 23." (Mearns.)