Amalocichla sclateriana De Vis, 1892

Nominate race has crown and upperparts dark olive- brown, side of head warm brown, loral area light grey, eyering pale buff; wing dark brown, remiges and wing- coverts edged with rufous, more broadly so on secondaries; tail dark olive- brown; chin and upper throat pale grey, finely mottled with brown, lower throat to neck side off- white; breast mottled grey- brown, side of belly and flanks grey, centre of belly off- white to pale buff; underwing with pale stripe across bases of remiges ; iris dark brown; bill dusky brown, paler on lower mandible; legs straw- brown. Sexes similar. Juvenile ha head and back pale rufous, mottled with black, wing- coverts barred rufous and black, breast feathers reddish- brown and narrowly tipped black. Race occidentalis has upperparts darker and more rufous than nominate, underparts more rufous olive- brown, and bill longer.