ZOSTERORNIS. d31 
shaft-stripes: lores, ear-coverts, and cheeks ashy with whitish shait- 
stripes; chin and throat chestnut, washed with light yellow; remainder 
of under parts very pale yellow; sides and fianks gray; wings brown, the 
outer webs edged with lighter brown. inner webs edged with white; 
rectrices brown, all but the middle pair tipped with white which in- 
creases on each pair tgward the outermost, the outer webs of which are 
entirely white. A male from Mindanao measures: Length, 147; wing, 
69 = tail, 60; culmen from base, 16; bill from nostril, 10; tarsus, 18. A 
female, wing, 67 ; tail, 60; culmen from base, 15; bill from nosiril, 9.5; 
tarsus, 18.5. 
“Not uncommon in the deep forest of Basilan, where it is usually 
found in company with Macronous. Hypothymis, and other birds. Seven- 
teen males average: Length, 143; wing, 67; tail, 61; eulmen, 18; tarsus, 
17: middle toe with daw. 16. Eleven females, length, 141; wittg, 67: 
tail, 60; tarsus, 18; middle toe with claw, 16; culmen, 16. Iris reddish 
brown ; legs and feet drab, with a greenish tinge; feet and neils yellow- 
ish; bill almost black.” (Bouwrns and Worcester MS.) 
511. ZOSTERORNIS NIGROCAPITATUS (Steere). 
BLACE-CROWNED TREE BABBLER. 
Mirornis rigrocepitatus Sverre, List Birds and Mams. Steere Exped. 
(1890). 17. 
Zosterornis nigrocepitatus Granr. Ibis (1897). 232: Wurreneap. Ibis 
(1899). 225 (habits) - 
Zesterormis nigrocepitata SHampe. Hand-List (1903). 4, 51; McGsrecos 
and Worcestss. Hand-List (1906). S2 (part). 
Bohol (McGregor): Leyte (Steere Exp. Whitehead): Samar (Sieere Erp. 
Bourns € Worcesier, Whitehead). 
Adult (male and female)—Forehead, lores. and crown biack, on each 
side behind eye a small patch of dark chestnut : remainder of upper paris 
ashy gray with lighter shaft-stripes; tail-coverts slightly olivaceous; 
ear-coverts and sides of head and neck like the back; chin and throat clear 
saffron-yellow, extending faintly onto fore breast; a short stripe of dark 
chestnut on each side of throat; middle of lower breast and abdomen and 
tail-coverts white ; sides, flanks, and thighs gray; quills brown, externally 
edged with dull olivaceous, internally with white; median and lesser 
coverts like the back ; rectrices brown, all but the middle pair tipped with 
white which increases on each pair toward the outermost, the outer 
-webs of which are entirely white. Length, about 145. A male from 
_ Bohol measures: Wing, 68; tail, 62; culmen from base, 14.5; bill from 
_ nostril, 9; tarsus, 17. A female, wing, 65.5; tail, 59; culmen from base. 
15; bill from nostril, 9.5; tarsus, 17. 
cs “Professor Steere originally described this bird as a Mirornis, but the 
_ structure of the nasal opening. as well as the shape of the wing, clearly 
ide pt 2) oo) ela 
dint 
Se eee a ts will 
