Platyrhynchus ceylonensis Swainson, Zool. Illustr. (1820), ser. 1,
1, pl. 13.
Culicicapa ceylonensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4,
369; Hand-List (1901), 3, 268; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind. Bds. (1890),
2, 38, fig. 16 (bill); Oates and Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1903), 3,
283, pl. 9, fig. 6; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 75.
Palawan (Platen). Khasi Hills, Indian Peninsula, mountains of
northwestern Borneo, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, Java.
Adult male.--Top of head smoky gray; lores and sides of head lighter;
remainder of upper parts light greenish yellow, rump a trifle lighter;
wings and tail brown, the edges of the feathers greenish yellow,
edges of secondaries lighter and more yellowish; chin, throat, and
fore breast ashy gray; remainder of lower parts including axillars and
wing-lining bright yellow. "Upper mandible black; lower mandible pale
fleshy; feet olive-brown; soles yellow." (Abbott.) "Iris dark hazel;
bill brown, paler at the base and gape; mouth yellow; legs yellowish
brown; claws horn-color." (Oates.) Length, about 125; wing, 60; tail,
48; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 12. Here
described from a specimen collected by Abbott in Trong, Lower Siam.