Leyte (Whitehead); Mindanao (Everett).
Adult.—“Black with a blue gloss, greenish in some lights; chin, throat, and larger under wing-coverts pure white. Wing, 161; tail, 32.” (Tweeddale.) “Iris dark brown; bill black; legs lead-gray.” (Whitehead.)
This species is known only from the type, a female collected near Zamboanga, Mindanao, and from three specimens taken in Leyte by Whitehead.
Subfamily MICROPODINÆ.
Genera.
- a1. Smaller; toes all directed forward, but in pairs, two toes on each side of the median tarsal line; plumage nearly uniform brown. Tachornis (p. [360])
- a2. Larger; toes all directed forward and at equal intervals; chin, throat, and rump white. Micropus (p. [361])
Genus TACHORNIS Gosse, 1847.
Toes all directed forward, in pairs, two toes on each side of the median tarsal line, none of them reversible; tail deeply forked, its feathers narrow; plumage nearly uniform in color without white markings.