ON MUSCICAPULA WESTEUMANNI AND M. MELANOLEUCA. 93 



NOTE XVI. 



ON ïtlE IDENTITY OF MUSCICAPULA WESTER- 

 MANNI, SHARPE AND M. MELANOLEUCA, HODGS. 



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Dr. O. PINSCH. 



Under the first name Dr. Sharpe describes (Proc. Z. S. 

 L. 1888, p. 270) a small flycatcher, a single specimen col- 

 lected by Mr. L. Wray in the principal mountain range 

 of Perak (Mt. Ulu Batang Padang, 4200 f. h.). This spe- 

 cimen was marked » adult male", but Mr. Sharpe adds:» it 

 may not be the fully adult of its species, but I believe it 

 to be so" and remarks further: »the reddish upper tail- 

 coverts and tail remind one of the female of M. maculata^ 

 but the blue-grey upper surface distinguishes it at a glance." 

 The relationship is here correctly pointed out, for the type- 

 specimen of M. Westermanni is undoubtedly not an » adult 

 male" but an » adult female", as proved by Dr. Sharpe 

 himself on a pair of flycatchers collected by Mr. White- 

 head on the Kina Balu. About these two birds Dr. Sharpe 

 says (Ibis 1888, p. 885): »I cannot see any difference 

 between this male bird and specimens from the Himalayas 

 {M. maculata Tick.). The bird Mr. Whitehead sends as the 

 female is undoubtedly the same as my M. Westermanni, 

 so that if those two birds are sexes of one species, the 

 latter may have to be separated on the females alone, 

 while M. Westermanni (» female"!) is certainly different 

 from any Himalayan specimen of M. maculata^ 



Notes from. th.e Leyden JVCuseum, Vol. XX. 



