454 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
414. CAMIGUINIA HELENZ. (Steere). 
HELEN’S MASKED FLYCATCHER. 
Cyanomyas helene STEERE, List as and Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 16. 
Cyanomyias helene WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 106; Smarpe, Hand-List 
(1901), 3, 249; McGrrcor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 73. 
Camiguinia personata McGreeor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, see. A, 346. 
Camiguin N. (McGregor) ; Mindanao (Celestino) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns 
é& Worcester, Whitehead. 
Adult male-—General color light azure-blue; rump and upper tail- 
coverts lighter; breast darker; frontal line, chin, lores, and a narrow 
circumocular line velvety black, forming a mask which is narrowly 
bordered behind with bright silvery cobalt-blue, widest behind forehead 
and chin; middle of lower breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, wing- 
lining, and axillars white; wings and tail black, the exposed edges of 
feathers dark azure-blue, except first and second primaries; two outer- 
most pairs of rectrices narrowly tipped with white in old birds only. 
Iris brown; the narrow eyelids light blue; bill blue, except edges and 
tip which are black; legs and feet blue; nails blackish. Length, 154; 
wing, 67.5; tail, 67; culmen from base, 15; bill from nostril, 9; tar- 
sus, 16. In the slightly immature, but fully feathered, male the crest is 
less developed, the feathers of the crown are less scale-like, and the 
upper parts are darker blue than in the fully adult male. 
Adult female.—General color dull verditer-blue ; head, neck, and sides 
of head brighter; forehead dull cobalt; chin whitish, bordered by dull 
cobalt; throat, breast, and sides grayish, washed with dull azure-blue, 
shafts white; abdomen, flanks, under tail-coverts, and middle of lower 
breast white; wings and tail blackish brown, edged with dull verditer- 
blue. Wing, 64; tail, 64; culmen from base, 14; bill from nostril, 9; 
tarsus, 17. 
Young in first plumage.—Above smoky gray; below white; a dusky 
band across fore breast; wings and tail blackish brown; primaries and 
secondaries edged with verditer; outer webs of rectrices washed with 
verditer. 
“Rare in Samar, Always found in company with other flycatchers. 
Four males average: Length, 137; wing, 63; tail, 62; culmen, 13; tar- 
sus, 14; middle toe with claw, 13. A female, length, 130; wing, 59; 
tail, 55; culmen, 13; tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 13. Ivis nearly 
black; legs and feet slaty blue; nails usually black, in one.case bluish 
slate; bill blue, with black tip; eye-wattles blue. Breeding in August.” 
(Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
The specimens from Camiguin Island, north of Luzon, on which was 
based Camiguinia personata, are slightly larger than specimens from 
Mindanao and the latter are probably Cyanomyias helene of Steere. 
There appears to be no ground for retaining C. personata. 
