MIXORNIS. 533 



the back is distinctly olivaceous; the reddish brown of chin and upper 

 throat are diffused over these parts instead of forming a patch on each 

 side. The only known specimen, a male, was taken in Bataan Province, 

 Luzon, December 3, 1904. 



Genus MIXOENIS ''Hodgson'' Blyth, 1842. 



Eictal bristles nearly as long as bill from nostril; culmen from base 

 a little shorter than tarsus ; nasal opening oval and with no overhanging 

 membrane; feathers of lower back long, decomposed, and hair-like, 

 without stiff shafts, the longest reacljing to tips of tail-coverts ; entire body 

 plumage soft and decomposed. 



Species. 



a\ Chin and throat light yellow, narrowly striped with black woodi (p. 533) 



a'. Chin and throat white, broadly striped with black cagayanensis (p. 534) 



513. MIXORNIS WOODI Sharpe. 



PALAWAN TIT BABBLER. 



Miwornis woodi Shaepe, Trans, Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 331; 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (18S3), 7, 577; Hand-List (1903), 4, 53; Gates 

 and Reid, Cat Birds' Eggs (1905), 4, 49, pi. 2, fig. 9; McGkcgor and 

 Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 82. 



Balabac (Everett) ; Palawan [iSteere, Everett, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., 

 Bourns d Worcester, McGregor, White, Celestino) . 



Adult {sexes similar). — Forehead, lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, and feath- 

 ers around eye ashy gray, more or less streaked with black; crown 

 dark chestnut; occiput, nape, sides of crown behind eye, sides of neck, 

 and back olive-gray; long feathers of lower back dark ocherous brown; 

 chin white; throat and fore breast light sulphur-yellow with narrow 

 black shaft-lines; remainder of under parts light olive-gi .y, more yellow- 

 ish along middle of breast and abdomen; wings, tail, and upper tail- 

 coverts rusty chestnut; primaries and secondaries edged with white on 

 inner webs; rectriees with narrow obsolete bars. Length, about 140. 

 A male measures: Wing, 60; tail, 55; culmen from base, 14; bill from 

 nostril, 8.5 ; tarsus, 20. A female, wing, 03 : tail, -"in : culmen from base, 

 16; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 21. 



"Very common in the vines and thickets of forest and second growth 

 in Palawan. jSTot found by us in the Calamianes. Four males average: 

 Length, 137; wing, 01; tail, 50; culmen, 10; tarsus, 18; middle toe with 

 claw, 18. Seven females, length, 133; wing, 58; tail, 52; culmen, 10; 

 tarsus, 17; middle toe with claw, 17." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



