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feet slate-gray/ (Whitehead.) Length, 102; culmen, 13; wing, 53; 

 tail, 39; tarsus, 16.5." (Grant.) 



509. ZOSTERORNIS PLATENI (Blasius). 

 PLATEN'S TREE BABBLER. 



Mixornis plateni BLASIUS, Journ. fiir Orn. (1890), 147. 



Zosterornis plateni GRANT, Ibis (1897), 233, (key to species); SHABPE, 



Hand-List (1903), 4, 51; MCGREGOR and WOBCESTEB, 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.* 



510. ZOSTERORNIS CAPITALIS (Tweeddale). 



RUFOUS-CROWNED TREE BABBLER. 



Mixornis capitalis TWEEDDALE, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, 535; 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 110, pi. 7, fig. 2; SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. (1883), 7, 582. 



Zosterornis capitalis GBANT, Ibis, (1897), 233, (key to species); SHABPE, 

 Hand-List (1903), 4, 51; McGBEGOB and WOBCESTEB, Hand-List 

 (1906), 82. 



Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Dinagat 

 (Everett)-, Leyte (Everett)-, Mindanao (Platen, Qoodfellow, Celestino) ; Panaon 

 (Everett). 



Adult (male and female). Forehead and crown rufous-chestnut or 

 reddish auburn, some of the feathers with yellowish shaft-stripes ; occiput, 

 back, and lesser and median wing-coverts dark brown with pale yellow 

 shaft-stripes; rump and tail-coverts slightly olivaceous and without 



*The original description of Mixomis (= Zosterornis) plateni follows: 

 "Mizornis plateni, bedentend kleiner als M. capitalis, mit welcher Form die 

 Art, besonders von der Oberseite gesehen, eine gewisse Aehnlichkeit in der 

 Farbung bsitzt. 



Oberseite olivenbraun, Btirzel und Schwanzdeckfedern mehr rostfarben, am 

 Vorderriicken weisse Schaftstriche. Ganzer Kopf, oben und an den Seiten, Nacken 

 und Brust rothbraun mit feinen weissen Schaftstrichen. Kinn Kehle mehr 

 schwarzlich mit breiteren weissen Schaftflecken. Schwanzfedern einfarbig braun, 

 an der Aussenfahen olivenfarben verwaschen. Ebenso die schwanz federn oberseits 

 und die oberen Fliigeldeckfedern. Untere Flugeldeckfedern und Achselfedern 

 weisslich. Masse: 9 Long. tot. 12 cm. Ala 5.5 cm. Caud. 4.7 cm. Culmen 1.0 

 cm. Tarsus 1.5 cm. Type: Museum Brunsvicense." 



