Turdus mindorensis Grant, Ibis (1896), 465; Whitehead, Ibis
(1899), 213 (habits).
Merula mindorensis Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 125; McGregor
and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 83.
Mindoro (Whitehead).
"Adult male.--Top and sides of the head and nape grayish brown, shading
into brownish black on the rest of the upper parts and tail; chin
whitish; throat and upper breast brownish gray, but considerably paler
than the crown; sides of the lower breast and flanks rich chestnut;
middle of the breast and belly pure white; under tail-coverts dark
gray, tinged with rufous and with wide white middles, widest toward
the extremity. Length, 229; wing, 108; tail, 88; tarsus, 30.
"Adult female.--Only differs from the male in having the brownish black
upper parts washed with dark olive, most conspicuous on the rump and
upper tail-coverts. Length, 221; wing, 108; tail, 82.5; tarsus, 30.
"In the immature male the upper parts resemble those of the female,
but most or many of the feathers on the top of the head are brownish
black and similar in color to the back of the adult male.
"In a slightly older example the head is mixed with the brownish
gray feathers of the adult plumage; in a younger bird the crown is
uniform brownish black, and the feathers of the mantle have rufous
shaft-stripes. Both these birds have the chest and upper breast mixed
with rust-colored feathers spotted with black at the extremity, and
perfectly similar to those found in the young of the common blackbird
(T. merula).
"An immature female has the top of the head and nape warm dark
brown, and the rest of the upper parts dark brown washed with olive,
as in the adult female, but few of the feathers of the mantle and
wing-coverts have narrow rufous shaft-stripes, and the throat and chest
are mostly clad in the rust and black-spotted immature plumage. The
nearly adult female differs only from the adult in having the crown
blackish brown." (Grant).