360 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE P,IRI)8. 



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." (White- 

 head.) 



This species is known only from the type, a female collected near Zam- 

 boanga, Mindanao, and from three specimens taken in Leyte by White- 

 head. 



Subfamily MICROPODIN^. 



Genera. 



o\ Smaller; toes all directed forward, but in pairs, two toes on each side of the 

 median tarsal line; plvmiage nearly uniform brown Tachornis (p. 360) 



a.-. Larger; toes all directed forward and at equal intervals; chin, tliroat, and 

 rump white Micropus (p. 3(51) 



Genus TACHOENIS 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. 



324. TACHORNIS PALLIDIOR McGregor. 



PALER PALM SWIFT. 



Tachornis infumatus McGregor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1903), 1, 5. 

 Tachornis pallidior McGbegor, Bur. Go^^;. Lab. (1904), 25, 27; McGregor 

 and Worcester, Hand-List (1900), 59. 

 Bohol (McGregor); Cebu (McGreyor) ; Luzon {McGregor) ; Mindanao {Celes- 

 tino) ; Ticao {McGregor). 



Adult. — Upper parts dark brown ; nearly 1)1 ack on head, neck, and back 

 which have a faint green gloss; feathers of rump and upper tail-coverts 

 lighter brown and narrowly fringed with gray in unworn plumage, the 

 tail-coverts with dark shafts; wing- feathers blackish brown, glossy on 

 outer webs; short primaries narrowly edged with white on inner webs; 

 tail of the same color as wings; sides of head brown; chin and throat 

 light drab-gray, merging gradually into the dark drab-gray of the lower 

 breast and abdomen where the feathers are narrowly edged with whitish ; 

 stiff feathers in front of eye white with brown tips. Length in flesh, 

 114; wing, 119; lateral rectrices, 50; central rectrices, 31. 



This species is easily recognized by the deeply-forked tail and peculiar 

 paired toes; it is a near relative of Tachornis infumata from which it 

 differs chiefly in having a paler chin and throat. It has been found in 

 small numbers in the islands from whicli it is recorded. 



