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 on!} 7 known specimen, a male, was taken in Bataan Province, 

 Luzon, December 3, 1904. 



Genus MIXOBN1S "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 reaching to tips of tail-coverts ; entire body 

 plumage soft and decomposed. 



Species. 



a 1 . Chin and throat light yellow, narrowly striped with black wood! (p. 533) 



a 2 . Chin and throat white, broadly striped with black cagayanensis (p. 534) 







513. MIXORNIS WOOD I Sliarpe. 

 PALAWAN TIT BABBLER, 



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

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 577; Hand-List (1903), 4, 53; GATES 

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

 WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 82. 



Balabac (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 light 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, .">(> ; 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.) 



