Drymocataphus cinereiceps Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 617.
Anuropsis cinereiceps Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7,
590; Hand-List (1903), 4, 41; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 81.
Balabac (Everett); Palawan (Everett, Lempriere, Whitehead, Platen,
Bourns & Worcester, Celestino).
Male.--Top of head and hind neck ashy gray, lighter on lores and
ear-coverts; remainder of upper parts fulvous-brown, more rusty on
outer webs of primaries and secondaries: chin, throat, and middle
of breast and abdomen white; sides of breast, flanks, thighs,
and crissum light tan or ocherous-brown, extending faintly across
fore-breast. Length, 114; wing, 61; tail, 30; culmen from base, 18;
bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 27.
"Adult female.--(Puerto Princesa, Palawan, January, 1878; A. Everett;
type of species). General color above dark fulvous-brown, with
faintly indicated pale shaft-stripes to the feathers of the mantle;
the plumage of the lower back and rump very full and lax, with dusky or
silvery gray bases; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back, with
the same pale shaft-lines; greater series dark fulvous-brown; quills
dark brown internally, externally dark fulvous-brown, somewhat ashy
on the outer webs of the primaries; tail-feathers dark fulvous-brown;
crown of head dark ashy gray, the hind neck and sides of neck lighter
ashy gray; lores and feathers round the eye ashy whitish; ear-coverts
light ashy gray with whitish shaft-lines; cheeks white, with a narrow
line of black along their upper margin; entire throat pure white,
as also the entire abdomen; breast and sides of the body, thighs,
and under tail-coverts light fulvous-brown, with paler shaft-lines
on the feathers of the breast; axillars fulvous with white bases;
under wing-coverts fulvous; quills dusky brown below, ashy fulvous
along the edge of the inner web. 'Bill brownish gray, the mandible
white; legs pallid, the front of the tarsi tinged brown; iris burnt
sienna-orange.' (A. H. Everett.) Length, 144; culmen, 18; wing, 60;
tail, 27; tarsus, 28. (Mus. R. G. Wardlaw-Ramsay)." (Sharpe.)
"Rare in the region collected in by us; a single male obtained. It
measures: Length, 127; wing, 61; tail, 27; culmen, 20; tarsus, 27;
middle toe with claw, 23. Iris brown; legs, feet, and nails pale
flesh-color; upper mandible black, lower nearly white." (Bourns and
Worcester MS.)
Genus DASYCROTAPHA Tweeddale, 1878.
"Base of maxilla densely clothed with short feathers, space behind the
eye naked; bill about the length of head, and formed as in Mixornis;
wing lengthened, longer than tail; first primary half the length of the
second, which is a fifth shorter than the third; third a little shorter
than the fourth, which is equal to fifth and sixth; tail moderate
and square; tarsus strong; hallux with claw stout and long; digits
short and slender; outer a little longer than inner." (Tweeddale.)