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MUSCICAPULA. 443 
404. MUSCICAPULA LUZONIENSIS Gyrant. 
GRANT’S FLYCATCHER, 
Museicapula luzoniensis GRANT, Ibis (1894), 505; Wuirenrap, Ibis (1899), 
105 (habits) ; SHarPr, Hand-List (1901), 3, 224; McGrecor and Wor- 
CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 72. 
Calayan (McGregor) ; Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor); Mindoro (Whitehead). 
Adult male——Entire upper parts and sides of neck dark slate-gray ; 
lores, sides of head, and jaw black; from lores over eye a partly con- 
cealed band of pure silky white; wings blackish brown; coverts edged 
with slate-gray; tail similar but darker; chin, throat, breast, and flanks 
clear orange-buff, slightly darker on breast; a lne of white on each 
side of throat next to the black of jaw; abdomen and under tail-coverts 
white; thighs blackish brown. Iris dark brown; bill black; legs white 
with a slight blue wash; nails hght brown. Length of a male from 
Calayan, 127; wing, 67; tail, 50; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 
9; tarsus, 19. In a slightly immature male from Calayan the greater 
coverts and secondaries are tipped with rusty buff. 
Adult female.—Above, including sides of head and of neck, olive- 
gray, becoming olive-brown on lower back, and ferruginous on tail and 
its coverts; lores and eye-ring pale ocherous-buff; wings brown; wing- 
coverts edged with olive-gray ; secondaries edged with olive-brown ; chin, 
throat, breast, and flanks very pale orange-buff; abdomen and _tail- 
coverts white. Length of a female from Benguet Province, Luzon, 115; 
wing, 57; tail, 41; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 17. 
Male in first plumage—Above dusky brown, each feather with a 
rusty yellowish buff spot, crown and nape rather streaked; upper tail- 
coverts rusty; sides of head like crown, with no indication of the adult 
plumage; wings brown; coverts bluish, each feather with a large buff 
spot; chin, throat, and upper breast white with a wash of buff; breast 
more heavily washed with buff and each feather edeged with black, 
producing a striped effect ; abdomen and under tail-coverts white; wing- 
lining, axillars, and flanks yellowish buff. 
Female in first plumage.—A young female is very much like the 
young male, but the upper parts are dull olive and washed rather than 
spotted with rusty buff. 
The Luzon flycatcher breeds in Benguet Province where young were 
taken in July. Specimens from Calayan Island are indistinguishable. 
405. MUSCICAPULA NIGRORUM Whitehead. 
WHITEHEAD’S FLYCATCHER, 
Muscicapula nigrorum WHITEHEAD, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1897), 6, 43; 
Ibis (1899), 106 (habits, plumage); SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 
224; McGrecor and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 72. 
Negros (Whitehead). 
