Rhabdornis inornatus Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1896), 6, 18;
Ibis (1897), 235, pl. 6, fig. 2; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 227.
Rhabdornis inornata Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 356; McGregor
and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 95.
Mindanao (Clemens); Samar (Whitehead).
"Adult male.--Easily distinguished from R. mystacalis and R. minor
by having the bill altogether stouter and stronger, the top of the
head and nape uniform dull grayish brown; mantle brown with whitish
shafts only to the feathers; the lesser and median wing-coverts with
well-marked white shaft-stripes; chin, throat, and fore neck grayish
white; the margins of the sides and flank-feathers narrower and
browner. 'Iris dark brown; bill and feet black.' (Whitehead.) Length,
157; culmen, 19; wing, 81; tail, 51; tarsus, 20." (Grant.)
Female.--Similar to the male, but top of head browner. Wing, 89;
tail, 57; exposed culmen, 16; tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 23.
Family ZOSTEROPIDÆ.
Bill curved and pointed, very similar to the bill of Dicoeum, but
without serrations in the cutting edges; nostril opening beneath
an opercle or scale; rictal bristles inconspicuous; eye usually
surrounded by a ring of short white feathers of a silky texture; wing
with nine primaries; tail square, moderate in length and extending
beyond the toes.
Genera.
a1. Upper parts nearly uniform olive-green or greenish yellow; length
rarely more than 125 mm. ... Zosterops (p. 613)
a2. Upper parts uniform cinnamon-rufous; length more than 150
mm. ... Hypocryptadius (p. 621)
Genus ZOSTEROPS Vigors and Horsfield, 1826.
Culmen decidedly ridged; eye, except in Z. goodfellowi, surrounded by
a ring of white feathers; general color yellow and yellowish green,
the abdomen in some species white, gray, or drab.