HYPOTHYMIS. 451 



tail as in male, but rather more greenish blue ; lores and anterior part of 

 cheeks rufescent buff; ear-coverts ashy brown, with whitish shaft-lines; 

 throat, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white; fore-neck, chest, and sides 

 of body ashy brown; under wing-coverts and axillars ashy brown, the 

 edge of the wing blue. 'Bill blackish brown, legs grayish brown, iris 

 dark brown.' (Swinhoe.) Wing, 89; tail, 61; tarsus, 15. 



"Young male. — Similar to old female, but having the back greenish 

 blue, only the head and neck ashy brown, even the crown being slightly 

 shaded with blue : upper tail-coverts with white edgings ; wings and tail 

 as in adult, the outer greater coverts tipped with buil; below as in 

 female, but having the throat ochraceous, the breast washed with ocher, 

 as also the sides of the body." (Sharpe.) 



The Japanese blue flycatcher is a rare winter visitant to the Philippine 

 Islands. 



Genus HYPOTHYMIS Boie, 1826. 



Bill flattened and depressed for its entire length, the outline not 

 curved inward toward the tip ; depth of bill at nostril nearly two-thirds 

 of the width; bill from nostril more than one-half the tarsus; rictal 

 bristles conspicuous, the longest equal to bill from nostril; wings short, 

 about equal to tail; first primary equal to one-half of third; fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth subequal and longest; seventh greater than third; second 

 primary shorter than the secondaries; tail slightly graduated, outermost 

 feathers shorter than middle pair l)y about one-third the length of tarsus ; 

 feathers of head short and soft, occipital crest short; dominative color 

 blue, abdomen white. 



413. HYPOTHYMIS OCCIPITALIS (Vigors). 

 BLACK-NAPED FLYCATCHER. 

 Musdcapa occipitalis Vigors, Pioc. Zool. Soc. (1831), 97. 

 Hypothymis occipitalis S11.A.RPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Miis. (1879), 4, 274; 

 Hand-List (1901), 3, 248; Gates and Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1903), 3, 

 273; McGregor, Bur. Govt. Labs. Manila (1905), 34, 18, pi. 13 

 (nest); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1900), 73. 

 Uypothyniis uzurea GRA^'T and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 237 (eggs); 

 Whitehead, Ibis (1899), lOfi. 



Pi-pit a-zul, Manila. 



Bantayan (McGregor); Banton (Celestinu) ; BasiUui (St<crc, Ecerett, Bourns 

 d- Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol {Htecre Exp., McGregor) ; Bongao (Everett) ; 

 Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester) ; Caluya (Porter) ; Cebu (Everett, Bourns c€ 

 Worcester, McGregor) ; Guimaras (Meyer, Stccre Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; 

 Leyte (Steere Exp.) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Everett, Uteere Exp., Mollen- 

 dorff, Bourns d \Vorccstci\ Whitehead, McGregor) ; Macstre de Canipo (McGregor 

 d Woi-cester) ; Mahinipa (Murray); Marinduque (8teere Exp.); Masbate 

 (Bourns d Woicester, McGregor) ; ^Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d 

 Worcester, Goodfellow, Celestino) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns d 

 Worcester, Everett, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Ni^gros (Layard, Everett, Steere Exp., 

 Bounis d Worcester, Kcay) ; Palawan (Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns 

 d Worcester, White) ; Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Romblon 



