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A male of this species from Benguet Province was 170 in length. Iris 

 light brown; bill black; legs and feet lead-blue. 



Genus CULICICAPA Swinhoe, 1871. 



Bill short and depressed, its depth at nostril little more than one-half 

 the width ; oral bristles numerous, the longest reaching nearly to tip of 

 bill; first primary more than one-half of second and less than one-half 

 of third ; fourth and fifth nearly equal and longest ; tarsus slender, equal 

 to twice the bill from nostril; plumage largely yellow. 



Species. 



a'. Head, chin, and throat gray, in contrast with the remainder of the plumage. 



ceylonensis (p. 472) 

 o'. Head, chin, and throat yellow, uniform with the adjacent parts of the body. 



helianthea ( p. 472 ) 



435. CULICICAPA CEYLONENSIS (Swainson). 



GRAT-HEADED YELLOW FLYCATCHER. 



Platyrhynchus ceylonensis Swainson, Zool. Illustr. (1S20), ser. 1, 1, pi. 13. 

 Culicicapa ceylonensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 369; Hand- 

 List (1901), 3, 268; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind. Bd.s. (1890), 2, 38, fig. 

 16 (bill) ; Gates and Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1903), 3, 283, pi. 9, fig. 

 6; McGbegob and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 75. 

 Palawan (Platen). Khasi Hills, Indian Peninsula, mountains of northwestern 

 Borneo, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, Java. 



Adult male. — Top of head smoky gray; lores and sides of head lighter; 

 remainder of upper parts light greenish yellow, rump a trifle lighter; 

 wings and tail brown, the edges of the feathers greenish yellow, edges of 

 secondaries lighter and more yellowish ; chin, throat, and fore breast ashy 

 gray; remainder of lower parts including axillars and wing-lining bright 

 yellow. "Upper mandible black; lower mandible pale fleshy; feet olive- 

 brown; soles yellow." (Abbott.) "Iris dark hazel; bill brown, paler 

 at the base and gape; mouth yellow; legs yellowish brown; claws horn- 

 color." (Oates.) Length, about 125; wing, 60; tail, 48; culmen from 

 base, 12; bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 12. Here described from a speci- 

 men collected by Abbott in Trong, Lower Siam. 



436. CULICICAPA HELIANTHEA (Wallace). 



YELLOW FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa helianthea Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1865), 476. 



Xantholestes panayensis Siiabpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 



1, 327. 

 Culicicapa panayensis Siiakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. ]\Ius. (1879), 4, 371. 

 Culicicapa hilianthea Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 109 (habits). 

 Culicicapa helianthea Shaepe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 268; McGkegob and 



Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 75. 



Bongao {Everett); Cebu (Bourns & Worcester); Leyte (V/hitehead) ; Luzon 

 (Whitehead, McGregor); Mindanao ( M earns) ; Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns d 



