NEGROS BLACK THRUSH.
- Turdus nigrorum Grant, Ibis (1896), 544; Grant and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 238, pl. 5, figs. 8 and 9 (eggs); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 213 (nest).
- Merula nigrorum Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 119; Oates and Reid, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1905), 4, pl. 5, fig. 18; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 83.
Negros (Whitehead).
“Adult male and female.—Above rich dark umber, darkest on the top of the head; wings and tail brownish black; chin, throat, and chest pale sooty brown, rather lighter on the breast, flanks, and belly; a band of white feathers across the vent; under tail-coverts dark brown, with pale whitish-brown tips. Bill and feet yellow. Male: Length, 241; wing, 124; tail, 96.5; tarsus, 34. Female: Length, 223.5; wing, 119; tail, 91; tarsus, 31.5.
“An immature male has the upper parts much like those of the adult, but the feathers of the back have indistinct margins of darker color, the chin and middle of the throat are buff, and the breast and under parts spotted with black and washed with rufous, shading into tawny buff on the middle of the belly.
“The Negros blackbird is resident on the volcano of Canloon at an altitude of from 1,600 to 2,000 meters, and both young birds and eggs were obtained.” (Grant.)
A nest containing two “much incubated” eggs was taken by Whitehead on April 12, 1896, and another nest with two young birds was found on the 21st of the same month. The eggs are described as follows: “Shape ovate. Ground-color very pale green; one egg very thickly mottled with brick-red, almost hiding the ground-color; the second blotched toward the larger end and more thinly marked over the rest of the shell showing the very pale red-lilac clouded under-markings. As compared with eggs of the common blackbird, the above are very much redder, and closely resemble those of Turdus simillimus.” (Grant and Whitehead.)
529. PLANESTICUS MALINDANGENSIS (Mearns).
MALINDANG BLACK THRUSH.
- Merula malindangensis Mearns, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 357.