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507. ZOSTERORNIS DENNISTOUNI Grant. 



YELLOW TREE BABBLEE. 



Zosterornis dennistouni Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1895), 5, 2; Ibis 

 (1896), 118, pi. 3, fig. 2; (1897), 234 (key to species); Whitehead, 

 Ibis (1899), 223, (habits); Shabpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 51; Mc- 

 Gkegoe and Wobcester, Hand-List (1906), 82. 



Luzon ( Whitehead) . 



"Adult male and female. — Forehead and crown shining golden yellow, 

 shading into yellowish gray on the back and sides of the head and neck, 

 and greenish gi-ay on the back and rest of the upper parts, all the feathers 

 with narrow whitish shaft-stripes ; wings dark brown, the quills margined 

 with yellowish brown ; chin and throat golden yellow, but paler than the 

 crown, and shading into whitish yellow on the breast and rest of under 

 parts ; sides and flanks washed with greenish gray ; tail-feathers brownish 

 black, margined on the outer webs with yellowish brown, the five outer 

 pairs tipped with white, the tips increasing in width towards the outer 

 pair, which has also the greater part of the outer web white. 



"Immature birds resemble the adult, but the golden yellow forehead 

 is represented by yellowish brown feathers with pale middles, the quills 

 are edged with rufous, and the under parts are white slightly tinged with 

 yellow." (Grant.) 



Grant's measurements of the t}^es, converted to millimeters, are : Male, 

 length, 140; wing, 68; tail, Gl ; culmcn, 18; tarsus, 19: female, length. 

 135 ; wing. 66 ; tail, 56 ; culmen, 18 ; tarsus, 19. 



The yellow tree babbler is resident in the vicinity of Cape Engafio, 

 northern Luzon. 



50S. ZOSTERORNIS PYGM>^US Grant. 



PYGMY THEE BABBLER. 



Mixornis plateni Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. 

 Papers (1894), 1, 58, (not of Blasius). 



Zosterornis pygmceus Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1896), 6, 18; Ibis 

 (1897), 233, pi. 6, fig. 1; Whitehead, Ibis, (1899), 223 (habits). 



Zosterornis pygmcea Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 51 ; ^MrOREcoR and Wor- 

 cester, Hand-List (1906), 82. 



Leyte (Whitehead): Samar {Bourns d- Worcester, Whitehead). 



"Adult male and female. — General color above brownish olive, brownest 

 on the crown, each feather of which has a narrow whitish shaft-stripe : 

 lores whitish; feathers above and below the eye blackish with white 

 shafts; chin whitish; throat, fore neck, and chest gray with white mid- 

 dles to the feathers, most marked on tlie throat; breast and belly white, 

 shading into grayish on the sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts. 'Iris 

 bicolorcd. outer ring red. inner pale yellow: bill slate-blue, black at tip: 



