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Adult male. — Above, including sides of head and of neck, dark slate- 

 gray ; upper tail-coverts nearly black ; wings and tail dark brown ; second- 

 aries and wiiig-coverts edged with slate-gray; a partly concealed white 

 patch or band on each side of nape; under parts white; breast, sides, 

 flanks, and thighs washed with slate-gray. A male from Basilan meas- 

 ures : Wing, 69 ; tail, 43 ; culmen from base, 13.5 ; bill from nostril, 9.5 ; 

 tarsus, 21. 



Adult female. — Above, including sides of head and of neck, rich rusty 

 brown, shading into bright chestnut on tail-coverts, tail, and edges of 

 secondaries; wings and tail dark brown; exposed edges of primaries 

 rasty brown; under parts white; breast, sides, flanks, and thighs washed 

 with rusty brown, A female from Basilan measures : Wing, 66 ; tail, 43 ; 

 culmen from base, 14; tarsus, 21. 



The female of this species resembles very closely the female of RJiin- 

 omyias ruficauda, but differs in having a shorter tail and longer tarsus. 



"We obtained a series of eight specimens from Basilan, and a single 

 bird from Mindanao. ISTot one of the Basilan birds shows a trace of 

 'yellowish white' on the tail-feathers ; otherwise, they agree with Blasius's 

 description. As the Mindanao bird collected by us also lacks all trace 

 of any lighter color on the tail-feathers, we do not feel lilce separating 

 the birds from the two islands. 



"The Basilan fl3'catcher is found on the ground in the forest and is 

 fairly common in Mindanao and Basilan. Eight males from the latter 

 island average: Length, 127; wing, 68; tail, 43; culmen, 16; tarsus, 21; 

 middle toe with claw, 19. Iris black; anterior surface of legs and upper 

 surface of feet pale leaden; back -surface of legs and bottoms of feet 

 white; bill black." {Bourns and ^Vorcester MS.) 



408. MUSCICAPULA SAMARENSIS Bourns and Worcester. 

 SAMAR FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapula samarensis Bourns and Worcestee, Slinnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Occ. Papers (1894), 1; 2G; Grant and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 237, 

 pi. 6, fig. 6 (egg); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 105 (habits, plumage); 

 Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 224; Gates and Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs 

 (1903), 3, 263; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 72. 



Leyte {Whitehead); Saniar (Whitehead, Bourns <G Worcester). 



"Adult male. — Top of head, sides of face, ear-coverts, and hind neck 

 nearly black; back, rump, and upper wing-coverts uniform dark slaty 

 blue; quills and tail fulvous-brown, slightly washed with slaty blue; 

 chin and throat white; entire breast bluish gray, lightest on center of 

 breast; abdomen white; flanks washed with bluish gray; under wing- 

 coverts light buff, nearly white at base; sides dark slate-color as are 

 under wing-coverts and axillars, the latter, however, mottled with white ; 

 a superciliary stripe of white beginning over eye and extending to nape, 

 then inward, nearly reaching the median line; sexes alike. Iris very 

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