Hyloterpe philippinensis Walden, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1872),
10, 252; Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 8, 179, pl. 31, fig. 2; Grant
and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 241 (eggs); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 225
(habits, nest); Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 313 (part); McGregor
and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 93 (error in locality list).
Pachycephala philippinensis Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883),
8, 221.
Luzon (Meyer, Whitehead, McGregor).
Adult.--Top of head and hind neck olive-brown, shading into dull
olive-green on back; lighter olive-green on rump, tail-coverts, and
edges of wing-feathers and rectrices; lores and ear-coverts drab; chin,
throat, and malar region white; chin-feathers with black shafts; throat
with obscure drab shaft-lines; sides of fore breast olive-yellow;
remainder of under parts bright lemon-yellow. Iris brown; bill black;
legs and nails flesh-color. Length, about 150. A male from Bataan
Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 84; tail, 69; culmen from base, 16;
bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 19. A female from the same locality,
wing, 81; tail, 66; culmen from base, 16; bill from nostril, 11;
tarsus, 20.