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 MIXORNIS “Hodgson” Blyth, 1842. 
Rictal 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 reaching to tips of tail-coverts ; entire body 
plumage soft and decomposed. | 
Species. 
@. 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, 
Mizornis woodi SHARPE, Trans, Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 331; 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 577; Hand-List (1903), 4, 53; OATES 
and Re1p, Cat Birds’ Eggs (1905), 4, 49, pl. 2, fig. 9; McGricor and 
WoRcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 82. 
Balabae (Everett); Palawan (Steere, Everett, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., 
Bourns & 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 hght sulphur-yellow with narrow 
black shaft-lines ; remainder of under parts light olive-g:..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; rectrices 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, 62; tail, 56; culmen from base, 
16; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 21. 
“Very common in the vines and thickets of forest and second growth 
in Palawan. Not found by us in the Calamianes. Four males average: 
Length, 137; wing, 61; tail, 56; culmen, 16; tarsus, 18; middle toe with 
claw, 18. Seven females, length, 133; wing, 58; tail, 52; culmen, 16; 
tarsus, 17; middle toe with claw, 17.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
