509. ZOSTERORNIS PLATENI (Blasius).
PLATEN’S TREE BABBLER.
- Mixornis plateni Blasius, Journ. für Orn. (1890), 147.
- Zosterornis plateni Grant, Ibis (1897), 233, (key to species); Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 51; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 82.
Mindanao (Platen).
Diagnosis.—Similar to Zosterornis capitalis, but noticeably smaller.
Description of female.—Above olive-brown; rump and tail-coverts more rust-colored; upper back with white shaft-stripes; entire head above and on sides, neck, and breast red-brown, with fine white shaft-stripes; chin and throat more blackish with broad white shaft-stripes; tail-feathers uniformly brown, washed with olive-brown on the outer webs; tail-feathers above and upper wing-coverts similar; under wing-coverts and axillars whitish. Length, 120; wing, 55; tail, 47; culmen, 10; tarsus, 15.[68]
510. ZOSTERORNIS CAPITALIS (Tweeddale).
RUFOUS-CROWNED TREE BABBLER.
- Mixornis capitalis Tweeddale, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, 535; Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 110, pl. 7, fig. 2; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 582.
- Zosterornis capitalis Grant, Ibis, (1897), 233, (key to species); Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 51; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 82.
Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Dinagat (Everett); Leyte (Everett); Mindanao (Platen, Goodfellow, Celestino); Panaon (Everett).