520 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



92.5' is a typographical error for (l^.o, but the hill appears to be 2 mm. 

 shorter. Coloration similar to that of the male and female of P. caudatus 

 Grant, from which it may be readily distinguished by the shortness <>! 

 the tail, 81 min. in the female of P. griseipectus and 8G.:>'i in the female 

 of P. caudatus. The outermost tail-feather is slender and abortive, 

 measuring 32 mm. in length; tarsus with six scutes; rictal bristles 

 scarcely discernible ; plumage soft and loose, the feathers of the back and 

 rump 35 mm. in length, with gray bases and fluffy aftershafts; webs of 

 rectrices decomposed and abraded apically; general color above burnt 

 umber, washed with vandyke-brown on rump and upper tail-coverts; 

 tail darker; wing-quills brownish black, the outer webs margined with 

 the same color as the upper parts and extending to the outer webs of tin 

 under side of wing; head darker, inclining to sepia, with a dirty grayish 

 supraorbital stripe; sides of throat, breast, and a wash down center of 

 abdomen mouse-gray ; chin and middle of throat white, each feather with 

 a grayish middle; sides, crissum, and under tail-coverts like the back: 

 breast tinged with gray. Iris hazel; bill with maxilla black; mandible 

 grayish horn-color; feet and claws ^-pin-brown (from fresh specimens). 

 Length, 176; alar expanse, 200; wing, 63; tail, 81; bill, measured from 

 base of mandible, 14; bill from nostril, 8.5; tarsus 1 1 ; middle toe with 

 claw, 23." (Mearns.) 



497. PSEUDOTHARRHALEUS M ALINDANGENSIS limn*. 

 MALINDANG WOOD ACCENTOR. 



Pseudotharrhalevs malindangensis MKAKNS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. il!0'.i.. 

 36, 441. 



Mindanao (Mearns). 



"Characters. The largest known species of Pseudoiharrhaleus; gray 

 of cheeks and supraorbital stripe obscured by heavy markings of brown : 

 feathers of chest heavily marked with black centers. 



"Adult male (type and only specimen). General color above burnt 

 umber, washed with vandyke-brown on rump and upper tail-coverts: 

 tail darker; wing-quills brownish black, with outer webs broadly mar- 

 gined with the same color as the upper parts and extending to the on lei- 

 webs of the under side of wing ; head sepia above, without an appreciable 

 pupraorbital stripe; sides of head grayish brown, maculated with bister; 

 chin and upper throat dirty whitish; much obscured by dusky maculcs 

 occupying the centers of the feathers; middle of chest gray, heavily 

 marked with blackish centers to the feathers; sides, crissum and under 

 tail-coverts, axillars, and lining of wings like the ba^ck, this color shading 

 to wood-brown on middle of belly. Iris brown; bill plumbeous-black; 

 feet and claws brown (from fresh specimen). The following measure- 

 ments were taken from the type specimen, freshly killed, by the writer : 



