Orthotomus frontalis Sharpe, Ibis (1877), 112, pl. 2, fig. 1;
Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 336 (part); Cat. Birds
Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 220 (part); Hand-List (1903), 4, 192 (part);
Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 219 (habits); McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 88 (part).
Bohol (Everett, McGregor); Dinagat (Everett); Leyte (Steere Exp.,
Whitehead); Mindanao (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns &
Worcester, Goodfellow, Celestino, Clemens, Bartsch); Samar
(Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead).
Adult.--Forehead, lores, and ring around eye rufous-chestnut, sharply
defined against the ashy gray crown; ear-coverts, sides of neck,
and hind neck ashy gray like the crown; back, rump, tail-coverts,
and edges of wing-feathers and of rectrices bright olive-green,
the last with a dusky subterminal band; under parts white, more
or less streaked with cinereous on throat and breast; sides ashy;
flanks and under tail-coverts washed with light yellowish green;
thighs chestnut. Length, about 115. A male from northern Mindanao
measures: Wing, 44; tail, 35; culmen from base, 15; bill from nostril,
11; tarsus, 19. A female from Bohol, wing, 41; tail, 34; culmen from
base, 16; bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 19.
Specimens in fresh plumage have the occiput more or less washed with
green; the dusky spots at end of tail are variable.