Pseudotharrhaleus malindangensis Mearns,
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1909), 36, 441.
Mindanao (Mearns).
"Characters.--The largest known species of Pseudotharrhaleus; gray of
cheeks and supraorbital stripe obscured by heavy markings of brown;
feathers of chest heavily marked with black centers.
"Adult male (type and only specimen).--General color above burnt umber,
washed with vandyke-brown on rump and upper tail-coverts; tail darker;
wing-quills brownish black, with outer webs broadly margined with
the same color as the upper parts and extending to the outer webs
of the under side of wing; head sepia above, without an appreciable
supraorbital stripe; sides of head grayish brown, maculated with
bister; chin and upper throat dirty whitish; much obscured by dusky
macules occupying the centers of the feathers; middle of chest gray,
heavily marked with blackish centers to the feathers; sides, crissum
and under tail-coverts, axillars, and lining of wings like the back,
this color shading to wood-brown on middle of belly. Iris brown;
bill plumbeous-black; feet and claws brown (from fresh specimen). The
following measurements were taken from the type specimen, freshly
killed, by the writer: Total length, 196; alar expanse, 212; wing,
66; tail, 90; culmen (chord), 16.5; bill from nostril, 10.3; from
occiput to tip of bill, 42; tarsus, 28; middle toe with claw, 25.
"This bird was usually found in hollows under mossy logs. Its
note resembles the alarm call of the American Pipilo fuscus
mesoleucus." (Mearns.)
Genus TURDINUS Blyth, 1844.
Bill stout and deep; tip of upper mandible strongly curved and
forming an overhanging hook; rictal bristles well developed, the
longest nearly as long as bill from nostril; wing moderate in length,
not greatly curved, longer than tail by about one-half the tarsus;
tarsus strong and slightly longer than culmen from base.