Mixornis plateni Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota
Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 58, (not of Blasius).
Zosterornis pygmæus Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1896), 6, 18;
Ibis (1897), 233, pl. 6, fig. 1; Whitehead, Ibis, (1899), 223
(habits).
Zosterornis pygmæa Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 51; McGregor and
Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 82.
Leyte (Whitehead); Samar (Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead).
"Adult male and female.--General color above brownish olive, brownest
on the crown, each feather of which has a narrow whitish shaft-stripe;
lores whitish; feathers above and below the eye blackish with white
shafts; chin whitish; throat, fore neck, and chest gray with white
middles to the feathers, most marked on the throat; breast and
belly white, shading into grayish on the sides, flanks, and under
tail-coverts. 'Iris bicolored, outer ring red, inner pale yellow;
bill slate-blue, black at tip; feet slate-gray.' (Whitehead.) Length,
102; culmen, 13; wing, 53; tail, 39; tarsus, 16.5." (Grant.)