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tail as in male, but rather more greenish blue; lores and anterior part of 
cheeks rufescent buff; ear-coverts ashy brown, with whitish shaft-lines; 
throat, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white; fore-neck, chest, and sides 
of body ashy brown; under wing-coverts and axillars ashy brown, the 
edge of the wing blue. ‘Bill blackish brown, legs grayish brown, iris 
dark brown.’ (Swinhoe.) Wing, 89; tail, 61; tarsus, 15. 
“Young male.—Similar to old female, but having the back greenish 
blue, only the head and neck ashy brown, even the crown being slightly 
shaded with blue; upper tail-coverts with white edgings; wings and tail 
as in adult, the outer greater coverts tipped with buff; below as in 
female, but having the throat ochraceous, the breast washed with ocher, 
as also the sides of the body.” (Sharpe.) 
The Japanese blue flycatcher is a rare winter visitant to the Philippine 
Islands. 
Genus HYPOTHYMIS Boie, 1826. 
Bill flattened and depressed for its entire length, the outline not 
curved inward toward the tip; depth of bill at nostril nearly two-thirds 
of the width; bill from nostril more than one-half the tarsus; rictal 
bristles conspicuous, the longest equal to bill from nostril; wings short, 
about equal to tail; first primary equal to one-half of third; fourth, 
fifth, and sixth subequal and longest ; seventh greater than third; second 
primary shorter than the secondaries; tail slightly graduated, outermost 
feathers shorter than middle pair by about one-third the length of tarsus; 
feathers of head short and soft, occipital crest short; dominative color 
blue, abdomen white. 
413. HYPOTHYMIS OCCIPITALIS (Vigors). 
BLACK-NAPED FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapa occipitalis Vicors, Proce. Zool. Soe. (1831), 97. 
Hypothymis occipitalis Suarpr, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 274; 
Hand-List (1901), 3, 248; OaTEs and Rem, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 
273; McGrecor, Bur. Govt. Labs. Manila (1905), 34, 18, pl. 13 
(nest) ; McGrrcor and WorcrEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 73. 
Hypothymis azurea GRANT and WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 237 (eggs) ; 
WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 106. 
Pi-pit a-zul, Manila. 
Bantayan (McGregor) ; Banton (Celestino); Basilan (Steere, Everett, Bourns 
& Worcester, McGregor); Bohol (Steere Exp., McGregor); Bongao (Everett) ; 
Calamianes (Bourns € Worcester); Caluya (Porter); Cebu (Everett, Bourns & 
Worcester, McGregor); Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; 
Leyte (Steere Exp.) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Everett, Steere Exp., Méllen- 
dorff, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Maestre de Campo (McGregor 
€ Worcester); Malanipa (Murray); Marinduque (Steere Exp.); Masbate 
(Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & 
Worcester, Goodfellow, Celestino) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns & 
Worcester, Everett, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Negros (Layard, Everett, Steere Exp., 
Bourns € Worcester, Keay); Palawan (Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns 
& Worcester, White); Panay (Steere Hap., Bourns €& Worcester); Romblon 
