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’ 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 thoygmot Turdus simillimus.” (Grant and 
Whitehead.) 
529. PLANESTICUS MALINDANGENSIS (Mearns). 
MALINDANG BLACK THRUSH. 
Meruia malindangensis Mearns, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 357. 
Mindanao (Mearns). 
“Characters.—Largest of the Philippine species of Merula. Breast 
and under side of neck light drab-gray, a darker shade of this color 
extending to the throat and chin and forming an indistinct collar around 
the hind neck; middle of abdomen and crissum nearly white; mantle, 
back, rump, and upper tail-coverts light sooty-brown; wings and tail dark 
sooty-brown. 
“Adult male-—Upper side of head, mantle, back, rump, and upper 
tail-coverts light sooty-brown; flanks slightly paler and browner; wings 
and tail dark sooty-brown, more fuliginous on under surface; chest and 
under side of neck light drab-gray, a darker shade of this color encircling 
the neck and extending to the chin and throat, where the feathers have 
dark shaft-streaks; sides of head pale sooty-brown; feathers of the 
median area from chest to crissum, with broad, white edges and a dark 
central area inclosing a sagittate white spot, giving a spotted appearance 
to the middle of the under surface of the body; crissum with this light 
area expanded and practically all white; under tail-coverts sooty-brown, 
longitudinally striped with white or pale buff. 
“Adult female.—Similar to the male but slightly smaller and dingier 
in color with a slight rufescence on sides of lower breast and flanks. 
“Immature male.—Sides of lower chest and flanks more strongly 
washed with raw-umber than in adult females; chest and throat darker. 
“First plumage (male).—Upper surface dusky, washed with raw- 
umber, especially on the head, neck, upper back, and wing-coverts; 
scapulars with pale rusty shaft-streaks, and some of the lesser wing- 
coverts edged with the same; under surface sepia-brown strongly mixed 
with reddish brown and spotted with brownish black, the rufescence 
covering the middle of the throat and much of the chest, the blackish 
cordate spots being confined to the tips and the rusty bands crossing the 
middle of the feathers; whitish median stripe distinct but with pale 
rufescent edging to the feathers except on lower abdomen; under tail- 
coverts sepia-brown with rusty edging and broad, white, median stripes. 
“Tn other specimens taken at the same season, the molt was nearly 
finished, leaving a few feathers with rusty bands and black spots and 
with a stronger rusty washing to the flanks than in adults.” (Mearns.) 
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