434 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. . 



"Fairly common ; often seen perched on some isolated tree in the open, 

 from which it flies now and then in pursuit of insects. Six males 

 average : Length, 132 ; wing, 83.5 ; tail, 50 ; culmen, 13 ; tarsus, 14 ; 

 middle toe with claw, 15. Four females, length, 128 ; wing, 81 ; tail, 49; 

 culmen, 13; tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 15. Iris, legs, feet, and 

 nails almost black; bill black, except base of lower mandible, which is 

 3'ellowish or gray." {Bourns and Worcester 3IS.) 



396. HEMICHELIDON FERRUGINEA Hodgson. 

 FEHRUGINOTJS FLYCATCHEE. 



Eemiehelidon ferruginea Hodgson, Proc. ZooL See. (1845), 32; Humk, 

 Gates ed.. Nests & Eggs Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 2; Shakpe, Hand-List 

 (1901), 3, 204; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 71. 



Eemiehelidon ferrugineus Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 122. 



Mindoro ( M earns ) ; Palawan (Everett). Khasi Hills, southern China, north- 

 ern Borneo, Burmese provinces, Eastern Himalayas, Assam, Sumatra. 



"Adult. — General color above rufous-brown, shading into chestnut on 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts; head and nape sooty brown; least 

 wing-coverts like the back, the remainder of the coverts and the second- 

 aries blackish brown, edged and tipped with chestnut-rufous, paler on 

 the margins of the inner secondaries; primary-coverts and primaries 

 nearly uniform blackish brown, the first primary broadly edged with 

 rufous; two center tail-feathers dusky brown, the remainder rufous, 

 dusky brown along the outer web, the inner web more or less dusky 

 near the tip; round the eye a distinct ring of bufEy white feathers; 

 lores rufous; feathers in front of and below the eye and the ear-coverts 

 dusky brown, mottled with whitish shaft-lines or spots; under surface 

 of body orange-rufous, the throat and sides of the breast shaded with 

 dusky brown; center of abdomen white; throat pale rufous-buff, with 

 dusky margins to most of the feathers; the bases of the plumes of the 

 lower throat white, f onning a concealed white patch ; under wing-coverts 

 deep orange-rufous; quills dark brown below, edged with light rufous 

 along the inner web. 'Bill black, with base of the lower mandible 

 whitish; feet dull gray, with the soles yellow and the nails gray; iris 

 brown.^ (David.) Length, 114; culmen, 11; wing, 71; tail, 51; tar- 

 sus, 13. 



"Observation. — In some specimens the throat is pure white, with a 

 malar streak on each side of dusky black; the outer tail-feathers appear 

 gradually to lose all the dusky markings on the outer web." (Sharpe.) 



The ferruginous flycatcher is a rare winter visitant to the Philippine 

 Islands. • A specimen of doubtful sex taken in Mindoro by Doctor 

 Mearns measures : Wing, 69 ; tail, 48 ; culmen from base, 10 ; tarsus, 

 12.5. The folded wings extend beyond the middle of the tail. 



