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404. MUSCICAPULA LUZONIENSIS Grant. 



GRANT'S FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicajnda luzoniensis Grant, Ibis (1894), 505; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 

 105 (habits) ; Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 224; McGregor and Wor- 

 cester, Hand-List (1906), 72. 



Calayan (McGregor) ; Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor) ; Mindoro (Whitehead). 



Adult male. — Entire upper parts and sides of neck dark slate-gray; 

 lores, sides of head, and jaw black; from lores over eye a partly con- 

 cealed band of pure silky white; wings blackish brown; coverts edged 

 Avith slate-gray; tail similar but darker; chin, throat, breast, and flanks 

 clear orange-buff, slightly darker on breast; a line of white on each 

 side of throat next to the black of jaw; abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 white; thighs blackish brown. Iris dark In-own; bill black; legs white 

 with a slight blue wash; nails light brown. Length of a male from 

 Calayan, 127; wing, 67; tail, 50; culmen from base, 13; bill from nostril, 

 9; tarsus, 19. In a slightly immature male from Calayan the greater 

 coverts and secondaries are tipped with rusty buff. 



Adult female. — ^Above, including sides of head and of neck, olive- 

 gray, becoming olive-brown on lower back, and ferruginous on tail and 

 its coverts; lores and eye-ring pale ocherous-buff ; wings brown; wing- 

 coverts edged with olive-gi'ay; secondaries edged with olive-brown; chin, 

 throat, breast, and flanks very pale orange-buff; abdomen and tail- 

 coverts white. Length of a female from Beuguet Province, Luzon, 115; 

 wing, 57; tail, 41; culmen from base, 1.2; bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 17. 



Male in first plumage. — Above dusky brown, each feather with a 

 rusty Yello^vish buff spot, crown and nape rather streaked; upper tail- 

 coverts rusty; sides of head like crown, with no indication of the adult 

 plumage; wings brown; coverts bluish, each feather with a large buff 

 spot; chin, throat, and upper breast white with a wash of buff; breast 

 more heavily washed with buff and each feather edeged with black, 

 producing a striped effect ; abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; wing- 

 lining, axillars, and flanks yellowish buff. 



Female in first plumage. — A young female is very much like the 

 young male, but the upper parts are dull olive and washed rather than 

 spotted with rusty buff. 



The Luzon flycatcher breeds in Benguet Province where young were 

 taken in July. Specimens from Calayan Island are indistinguishable. 



405. MUSCICAPULA NIGRORUM Whitehead. 



WHITEHEAD'S FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicupula nigrorum Wuiteuead, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1897), 6, 4.3; 

 Ibis (1899), 106 (habits, plumage); Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 

 224 ; IMcGregor and Worcester, Hand-List ( 1906 ) , 72. 



Negr OS ( W h i ieh cad ) . 



