Mixornis woodi Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877),
1, 331; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 577; Hand-List (1903),
4, 53; Oates and Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1905), 4, 49, pl. 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
feathers 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-gray, more
yellowish 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,
56; 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.)