Arundinax canturians Swinhoe, Ibis (1860), 52.
Cettia canturiens Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 5, 141;
Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 211 (winter).
Horornis canturians Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 236; Oates and
Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1905), 4, 238.
Horornis canturiens McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 90.
Apo (Celestino); Calayan (McGregor); Luzon (Whitehead,
McGregor). Southern Ussuri Land to Lake Chanka, Formosa; in winter
to Cachar and southern China.
Adult.--Above nearly uniform wood-brown; lighter on rump and
tail-coverts; a dusky spot before and behind eye; eyelids white;
a whitish line from bill over eye to nape; cheeks and ear-coverts
buffy brown; under parts white, washed with buff on sides, flanks,
crissum, and across fore breast; thighs slate-gray; wings brown,
the feathers edged with russet; tail brown; axillars, wing-lining,
edge of wing, and inner edges of quills white. Iris brown; bill dark
brown above and light below; legs light horn. A male from Calayan
measures: Length, 170; wing, 77; tail, 75; culmen from base, 16;
bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 27.