“Description of type (adult male).—Upper surface except head and neck all black; under surface of body black perceptibly washed with brown on feather edges; head and neck very dark brown, almost black on crown; entire under surface of wings and tail dull black; under tail-coverts black with narrow median white stripes involving the shafts. Iris very dark brown; eyelids, bill, feet, and claws all yellow. Female exactly like the male. A younger male than the type differs only in having the feathers of the under side of the body edged with yellowish brown. Length, 215; wing, 120; tail, 101; culmen (chord measured from true base), 22; bill from anterior margin of nostril, 13; tarsus, 34; middle toe with claw, 32.5.
“Female.—Length, 210; wing, 117; tail, 99; culmen, 20.5; bill from nostril, 13; tarsus, 33; middle toe with claw, 32.” (Mearns.)
527. PLANESTICUS KELLERI (Mearns).
KELLER’S BLACK THRUSH.
- Merula kelleri Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 6; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 83.
Pó-lo, Bagobo of Mount Apo.
Mindanao (Mearns, Goodfellow).
Adult.—This species is almost exactly like P. thomassoni in colors, but is considerably smaller in size. A male collected by Mearns measures: Length, 246; wing, 110; tail, 94; culmen from base, 21; bill from nostril, 13; tarsus, 31.
A female, wing, 110; tail, 89; culmen from base, 20; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 30.