444 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
“Male adult.—Most nearly allied to M. luzoniensis Grant. The gen- 
eral color of the upper parts less gray, but dark slaty blue as in M. 
hyperythra. ‘The chin is pure vgggte; the rest of the under parts richer 
orange-buff; belly white. 
“Female adult.—General color of the upper parts dull slate-gray, and 
not grayish olive-brown as in the female of M. luzoniensis; lores and 
feathers round the eye whiter; breast and under parts as in the male of 
M. luzoniensis.” (Whitehead.) 
406. MUSCICAPULA MONTIGENA Mearns. 
MOUNT APO FLYCATCHER, 
Muscicapula montigena MEARNS, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 8; 
McGreaor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 72. 
K’ri-kri, or sal-yb-seé-bon, Bagobo of Mount Apo. 
Mindanao (Mearns). 
“Adult male (two specimens).—General color of upper parts including 
lores, eye-ring, and sides of head dark slaty blue; white eyebrow-stripe 
reduced to small supraorbital patches; rump slightly washed with oli- 
vaceous; upper tail-coverts reddish burnt-umber; tail-feathers burnt- 
umber; wing-coverts like the back; quills grayish brown, edged with 
reddish brown externally and with fawn-color internally; under parts, 
except belly and sides, ochraceous, palest on the chin and under tail- 
coverts, belly whitish; sides bluish slate; lining and edge of wing 
ochraceous-buff. Length, 128; alar expanse, 208; wing, 65; tail, 51; 
bill from anterior border of nostril, 8.1; culmen, 10.5; tarsus, 18.5; 
middle toe with claw, 15.5. Iris brown; bill black; feet and claws 
light gray. 
“Adult female (two specimens).—Similar to the adult male except 
that the slaty blue of the back and rump are more perceptibly washed 
with olivaceous, and the lores, eye-ring, and touches on the ear-coverts 
are ochraceous-buff. Length, 125; alar expanse, 197; wing, 62; tail, 
47; bill from anterior border of nostril, 7.5; culmen, 10.5; tarsus, 18; 
middle toe with claw, 16.5. Iris brown; bill black; feet and claws 
grayish flesh-color. 
“Immature female.—Similar to adult females, but paler below, with 
obscure spotting across the chest and on the sides.” (Mearns.) 
This species was discovered by Mearns on Mount Apo at 1,800 meters 
altitude. 
407. MUSCICAPULA BASILANICA (Sharpe). 
BASILAN FLYCATCHER. 
Dendrobiastes basilanica SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soe. 2d ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 
332. 
Muscicapula basilanica SiarpR, Hand-List (1901), 3, 224; McGrecor and 
WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 72. 
Muscicapula mindanensis BLAstus, Jour. fiir Ornith. (1890), 147. 
Basilan (Steere, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Mindanao (Platen, Bourns 
€ Worcester, Celestino) . 
