Orthotomus nigriceps Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 828,
pl. 85; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 222; Hand-List
(1903), 4, 192; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 88.
Mindanao (Everett, Celestino).
Adult.--Loral feathers white with black tips; ring around eye and
superciliary stripe to above ear-coverts white; remainder of head,
hind neck, sides of neck, chin, throat, and chest black; back,
rump, and tail-coverts olive-green; wing-feathers blackish, edged
with green, brighter and more yellow on greater coverts and bend of
wing; rectrices brown, edged with green; middle of breast and abdomen
smoky gray; sides, flanks, thighs, and crissum olive-green. Length,
about 125. A male from northern Mindanao measures: Wing, 46; tail,
45; culmen from base, 16; bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 22.
Young.--In immature birds the cheeks, chin, throat, and breast
are white.