Mindanao (Goodfellow).
“Adult female.—General color above, including the wings and tail, dark slate, shading into dull black on top of head and ear-coverts; a narrow white band across the base of bill, continued over lores in a narrow superciliary stripe; lores and feathers surrounding the upper eyelid black; chin, throat, middle of breast, belly, and under tail-coverts whitish; chest, sides, and flanks brownish-buff; axillars, under wing-coverts, and inner edge of quills whitish. ‘Iris dark reddish brown; bill black; feet ashy gray.’ Length, about 157; culmen, 21; wing, 89; tail, 68; tarsus, 21.
“This fine species appears to be quite distinct from all the members of the genus previously described, being at once recognizable by the dark slate-color of the upper parts.” (Grant.)
432. RHINOMYIAS RUFICAUDA (Sharpe).
RUFOUS-TAILED RHINOMYIAS.
- Setaria ruficauda Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 327.
- Rhinomyias ruficauda Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 368; Hand-List (1901), 3, 267; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 109; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 75.
- Setaria samarensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 16.
Basilan (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Bohol (McGregor); Leyte (Whitehead); Mindanao (Steere Exp., Goodfellow, Celestino); Samar (Steere Exp., Whitehead).
Adult male.—Above rich olive-brown, darkest on the head; wing-feathers blackish, edged with olive-brown; tail-coverts and rectrices ferruginous; lores and ear-coverts pale gray, the latter washed with olive; under parts white, washed on sides of throat and of body with pale gray; thighs brown. Bill black; iris brown; legs light blue. Length of a male from Basilan, 152; wing, 74; tail, 57; culmen from base, 17; bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 18.
Adult female.—Similar to the male but lores obscured with brown and ear-coverts olive-brown. A female from Mindanao measures: Length, 152; wing, 71; tail, 54; culmen from base, 15; bill from nostril, 10; tarsus, 16.
Immature.—Sides and flanks washed with brown and feathers of breast edged more or less with brown; greater and median wing-coverts tipped with spots of light ocherous brown.