442 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Species. 



a\ A conspicuous white patch on wing; upper parts black; lower parts white 



(male) westermanni (p. 442) 



a^. No white wing-patch. 



fe'. Above smoky slate-gray ( males ) . 

 c^. Under parts largely orange-bufT. 



d'. Chin, throat, and breast orange-buff; abdomen white. 



c\ White eye-brow stripe about 10 mm. in length luzoniensis (p. 443) 



e\ White eye-brow stripe reduced to a small patch.... montigena (p. 444) 

 (P. Chin pure white; throat and breast rich orange-buff., nigrorum (p. 443) 

 c\ Under parts mostly white; breast and flanks washed with slate-gray. 

 d^. Head lighter; tail darker; superciliary stripe smaller. 



basilanica (p. 444) 

 cP. Head darker; tail lighter; superciliary stripe larger. 



samarensis ( p. 445 ) 

 1-. Above gray, washed with olive-brown; rump and tail washed with reddish 

 brown (females). 



403. MUSCICAPULA WESTERMANNI Sharpe. 

 WESTERMANN'S FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapula icestermanni Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1888), 270; Hand-List 

 (1901), 3, 224; Gates and Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1903), 3, 264, pi. 7, 

 fig. 20; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 72. 



Muscicapula maculata Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 104 (habits, song). 



Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor) ; Mindanao (Mearns, Goodfellow) ; Negros 

 (Whitehead). Moimtains of Celebes, of northwestern Borneo, and of the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



Adult male. — Above^ mcluding sides of head and neck, deep black; 

 a wide white band over eye, extending from above lores to nape; lower 

 parts white; wing blackish brown; greater coverts and edges of inner 

 secondaries white, forming a conspicuous patch; tail black, all the 

 rectrices, except the middle pair, with their basal halves white. Iris 

 dark brown; bill, legs, and nails black. Length, about 115; wing, 59; 

 tail, 43; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 16. 



Adult female. — Above ashy, washed with olive-brown, the latter color 

 strongest on the rump; tail-coverts and edges of rectrices rusty brown; 

 below white; breast, sides, and flanks washed with ashy brown; wings 

 and tail blackish brown. Wing, 56; tail, 40; bill from nostril, 7; 

 t.arsus, 161. 



Young. — Above slate-gray, heavily washed with olive-brown, the fea- 

 thers with median spots of ochraceous ; below white, the feathers fringed 

 with blackish brown; wing-coverts and secondaries edged with light 

 ochraceous; tips of the greater coverts forming a light bar. 



Westennann's flycatcher is very common in Benguet Pi'ovince, Luzon, 

 where it breeds. 



