442 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Species. 
a‘. A conspicuous white patch on wing; upper parts black; lower parts white 
(male) iota eee P Sikek Meee) westermanni (p. 442) 
a’, No white wing-patch. 
b'. Above smoky slate-gray (males). 
ce’. Under parts largely orange-buff. 
d', Chin, throat, and breast orange-buff; abdomen white. 
e’. White eye-brow stripe about 10 mm. in length...... luzoniensis (p. 443) 
e*. White eye-brow stripe reduced to a small patch.... montigena (p. 444) 
d@*. Chin pure white; throat and breast rich orange-buff.. nigrorum (p. 443) 
c*. Under parts mostly white; breast and flanks washed with slate-gray. 
d'. Head lighter; tail darker; superciliary stripe smaller. 
basilanica (p. 444) 
ad’, Head darker; tail lighter; superciliary stripe larger. 
samarensis (p. 445) 
b*. Above gray, washed with olive-brown; rump and tail washed with reddish 
brown (females). 
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403. MUSCICAPULA WESTERMANNI Sharpe. 
WESTERMANN’S FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapula westermanni SHARPE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1888), 270; Hand-List 
(1901), 3, 224; Oares and Rep, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 264, pl. 7, 
fig. 20; McGrecor and WorcrESsTER, Hand-List (1906), 72. 
Muscicapula maculata WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 104 (habits, song). 
Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor); Mindanao (Mearns, Goodfellow); Negros 
(Whitehead). Mountains of Celebes, of northwestern Borneo, and of the Malay 
Peninsula. 
Adult male——Above, including sides of head and neck, deep black; 
a wide white band over eye, extending from above lores to nape; lower 
parts white; wing blackish brown; greater coverts and edges of inner 
secondaries white, forming a conspicuous patch; tail black, all the 
rectrices, except the middle pair, with their basal halves white. Iris 
dark brown; bill, legs, and nails black. Length, about 115; wing, 59; 
tail, 43; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 16. 
Adult female.—Above ashy, washed with olive-brown, the latter color 
strongest on the rump; tail-coverts and edges of rectrices rusty brown; 
below white; breast, sides, and flanks washed with ashy brown; wings 
and tail blackish brown. Wing, 56; tail, 40; bill from nostril, 7; 
tarsus, 161. 
Young.—Above slate-gray, heavily washed with olive-brown, the fea- 
thers with median spots of ochraceous; below white, the feathers fringed 
with blackish brown; wing-coverts and secondaries edged with light 
ochraceous; tips of the greater coverts forming a light bar. 
Westermann’s flycatcher is very common in Benguet Province, Luzon, 
where it breeds. 
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