432 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Species. 
a. Tail uniform blackish brown; Tae of body dusky or ashy brown; 
upper tail-eoverts like back. 
b*. Breast and sides of body smoky brown somewhat streaked with gray. 
sibirica* (p. 432) 
b°’. Breast and sides of body white, feathers with wide shaft-streaks of smoky 
"> YO WAR (ora ys 81 Resa eee Ee el nel ee eke griseosticta (p. 433) 
a’, Tail ferruginous, its feathers with dark brown outer webs; back and rump 
RICH cheg beh Voy vE= eseces Cepia sey eA unladen eStart Pate viel des hse ferruginea (p. 434) 
394. HEMICHELIDON SIBIRICA (Gmelin). , 
SIBERIAN FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapa sibirica GMELIN, Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, pt. 2, 936. 
Hemichelidon sibirica SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 120; 
Hand-List (1901), 3, 204; Buastus, Ornis (1888), 10 of reprint ; 
OaTES, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 5, fig. 3 (head); OaTes and 
Rew, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 250; McGrecor and WorcEstrEr, 
Hand-List (1906), 70. 
Palawan (Platen). Eastern Siberia, Altai Mountains, Japan; China in 
winter. 
“Adult male-—General color above brown; least wing-coverts uniform 
with the back, the greater series dark brown with lighter brown tips to 
the median series, the greater coverts tipped with whitish; primary- 
coverts and primaries dark brown, the secondaries edged with pale brown, 
whitish at the tips; tail dark brown; lores buffy white; in front of the 
eye a dusky spot; round the eye a ring of buffy white feathers; feathers 
below the eye and ear-coverts brown like the crown; cheeks white, mottled 
with brown bases to the feathers ; throat white, widening out on the lower 
part and separated from the cheeks by a broad moustachial line of brown; 
breast and sides of body ashy brown the former slightly mottled with 
- grizzly white edgings to the feathers; abdomen and under tail-coverts 
pure white; thighs brown; under wing-coverts light tawny, with dusky 
bases to the feathers, the quills ashy brown with an edging of light 
tawny to the inner webs. ‘Upper mandible dusky black; lower mandible 
yellowish brown, tipped with dusky; legs and feet brownish black; iris 
dark brown.’ (Armstrong.) Length, 124; culmen, 10; wing, 80; tail, 
56; tarsus, 127. 
“Observation.—The description is from a specimen collected by Dr. 
Radde in Kastern Siberia on the 18th of May, 1856, and therefore in full 
breeding plumage. [Examples from other parts of China and the Hima- 
layas are similar, but great variation takes place in this species as regards 
* Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 204, recognizes H. fuliginosa as distinet from 
H. sibirica and gives Palawan as one of its localities. A flycatcher collected by 
Platen in Palawan is recorded by Blasius as H. sibirica and I have met with no 
reference to H. fuliginosa from that Island except as given by Sharpe. 
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