472 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
A male of this species from Benguet Province was 170 in length. Iris 
light brown; bill black; legs and feet lead-blue. 
Genus CULICMMAPA Swinhoe, 1871. 
Bill short and depressed, its depth at nostril little more than one-half 
the width; oral bristles numerous, the longest reaching nearly to tip of 
bill; first primary more than one-half of second and less than one-half 
of third; fourth and fifth nearly equal and longest; tarsus slender, equal 
to twice the bill from nostril; plumage largely yellow. 
Species. 
a’. Head, chin, and throat gray, in contrast with the remainder of the plumage. 
ceylonensis (p. 472) 
a*, Head, chin, and throat yellow, uniform with the adjacent parts of the body. 
helianthea (p. 472) 
435. CULICICAPA CEYLONENSIS (Swainson). 
GRAY-HEADED YELLOW FLYCATCHER. 
Platyrhynchus ceylonensis SwWAINSON, Zool. Illustr. (1820), ser. 1, 1, pl. 13. 
Culicicapa ceylonensis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 369; Hand- 
List (1901), 3, 268; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 38, fig. 
16 (bill) ; OATES and REtp, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 283, pl. 9, fig. 
6; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 75. 
Palawan (Platen). Khasi Hills, Indian Peninsula, mountains of northwestern 
Borneo, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, Java. 
Adult male.—Top of head smoky gray; lores and sides of head lighter ; 
remainder of upper parts light greenish yellow, rump a trifle lighter; 
wings and tail brown, the edges of the feathers greenish yellow, edges of 
secondaries lighter and more yellowish; chin, throat, and fore breast ashy 
gray; remainder of lower parts including axillars and wing-lining bright 
yellow. “Upper mandible black; lower mandible pale fleshy; feet olive- 
brown; soles yellow.” (Abbott.) “Iris dark hazel; bill brown, paler 
at the base and gape; mouth yellow; legs yellowish brown; claws horn- 
color.” (Oates.) Length, about 125; wing, 60; tail, 485 culmen from 
base, 12; bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 12. Here described from a speci- 
men collected by Abbott in Trong, Lower Siam. 
436. CULICICAPA HELIANTHEA (Wallace). 
YELLOW FLYCATCHER, 
Muscicapa helianthea WALLACE, Proce. Zool. Soc. (1865), 476. 
Xantholestes panayensis SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 
A gNOA ee 
Culicicapa panayensis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 371. 
Culicicapa hilianthea WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 109 (habits). 
Culicicapa helianthea Suarre, Hand-List (1901), 3, 268; McGrrecor and 
Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 75. 
Bongao (Hverett); Cebu (Bourns € Worcester); Leyte (Whitehead) ; Luzon 
(Whitehead, McGregor); Mindanao (Mearns); Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns & 
