Mixornis plateni Blasius, Journ. für Orn. (1890), 147.
Zosterornis plateni Grant, Ibis (1897), 233, (key to species);
Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 51; McGregor and Worcester, 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. [71]