Geocichla cinerea Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota
Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 23; Sharpe, Hand-List
(1903), 4, 133; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 84.
Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor).
Male.--Above black; feathers of head, neck, back, rump, and scapulars
edged with ashy gray; lores white, the hair-like tips of the shafts
black; eye-circle white, broken above and below center of eye by a
black spot; feathers of jaw and ear-coverts white with black tips,
between these areas the cheeks are black; chin feathers white, their
shafts with black hair-like tips; remainder of under parts white, the
feathers of throat, chest, and sides of body and abdomen with large
fan-shaped black tips, forming an almost solid black pectoral patch,
but posteriorly becoming gradually smaller; crissum and middle of
abdomen without spots and washed with ocherous buff, most heavily
on the longer tail-coverts; a dusky wash on flanks; wing-feathers
blackish; outer webs of primaries edged with gray; inner webs of
quills, except first two, with a diagonal band of light buff or white;
alula and primary- and secondary-coverts black; greater and median
coverts tipped with white forming two bars; edge of wing white;
axillars white, tipped with blackish, these colors reversed on under
wing-coverts; tail blackish, outermost rectrices each with a terminal
white spot on inner web. Length, about 200 mm. A male measures: Wing,
115; tail, 70; culmen from base, 22; bill from nostril, 13; tarsus,
32; middle toe with claw, 29.
Female.--The only female examined is very similar to the male, but the
ocherous wash of the under parts is lighter and the outer webs of the
primary-coverts are marked with white forming a short band. Bill black,
base of lower mandible whitish; iris very dark brown; legs and nails
white. Wing, 112; tail, 63; culmen from base, 22; bill from nostril,
13; tarsus, 30.