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“Fairly common ; often seen perched on some isolated tree in the open, 
from which it flies now and then in pursuit of insects. Six males 
average: Length, 132; wing, 83.4@gMtail, 50; culmen, 13; tarsus, 14; 
middle toe with claw, 15. Four females, length, 128; wing, 81; tail, 49; 
culmen, 13; tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 15. Iris, legs, feet, and 
nails almost black; bill black, except base of lower mandible, which is 
yellowish or gray.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
396. HEMICHELIDON FERRUGINEA Hodgson. 
FERRUGINOUS FLYCATCHER. 
Hemichelidon ferruginea Hopason, Proce. Zool. Soe. (1845), 32; Hume, 
Oates ed., Nests & Eggs Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 2; Smarpr, Hand-List 
(1901), 3, 204; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 71. 
Hemichelidon ferrugineus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 122. 
Mindoro (Mearns); Palawan (Hverett). Whasi Hills, southern China, north- 
ern Borneo, Burmese provinces, Eastern Himalayas, Assam, Sumatra. 
“Adult.—General color above rufous-brown, shading into chestnut on 
the rump and upper tail-coverts; head and nape sooty brown; least 
wing-coverts like the back, the remainder of the coverts and the second- 
aries blackish brown, edged and tipped with chestnut-rufous, paler on 
the margins of the inner secondaries; primary-coverts and primaries 
nearly uniform blackish brown, the first primary broadly edged with 
rufous; two center tail-feathers dusky brown, the remainder rufous, 
dusky brown along the outer web, the inner web more or less dusky 
near the-tip; round the eye a distinct ring of buffy white feathers; 
lores rufous; feathers in front of and below the eye and the ear-coverts 
dusky brown, mottled with whitish shaft-lines or spots; under surface 
of body orange-rufous, the throat and sides of the breast shaded with 
dusky brown; center of abdomen white; throat pale rufous-buff, with 
dusky margins to most of the feathers; the bases of the plumes of the 
lower throat white, forming a concealed white patch ; under wing-coverts 
deep orange-rufous; quills dark brown below, edged with light rufous 
along the inner web. ‘Bill black, with base of the lower mandible 
whitish; feet dull gray, with the soles yellow and the nails gray; iris 
brown.’ (David.) Length, 114; culmen, 11; wing, 71; tail, 51; tar- 
sus, 13. 
“Observation.—In some specimens the throat is pure white, with a 
malar streak on each side of dusky black; the outer tail-feathers appear 
gradually to lose all the dusky markings on the outer web.” (Sharpe.) 
The ferruginous flycatcher is a rare winter visitant to the Philippine 
Islands. A specimen of doubtful sex taken in Mindoro by Doctor 
Mearns measures: Wing, 69; tail, 48; culmen from base, 10; tarsus, 
12.5. The folded wings extend beyond the middle of the tail. 
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