220 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on the 



18. MuscicAPULA SAMARENsis, Boums & WorcGster^ Occ. 

 Pap. Minnesota Acad. Sci. i. no. 1, p. 26 (1894). 



The Samar White-browed Flycatcher is described dy 

 Messrs. Bourns and Worcester as having the sexes alike, but 

 a mistake has evidently been made in ascertaining the sex 

 of the slate-coloured bird described as a female. Mr. White- 

 head obtained two pairs of this species, and the females differ 

 entirely from the males in the colour of the upper parts, 

 which are rusty brown, while the strongly marked white 

 eyebrow-stripes are practically absent. There cannot be 

 the slightest doubt that the rufous-brown females are fully 

 adult, for one was shot from a nest with four eggs, and that 

 they belong to the same species as the slate-grey males is 

 almost equally certain. 



I observe that the type of M. mindanensis, Blasius 

 (J. f. O. 1890, p. 147), a grey bird, is said to have been a 

 female, but here probably a mistake has been made. There 

 are two adult grey examples of this Flycatcher from the 

 Steere collection, both of which are said to be males, and 

 they agree perfectly with the description of the type. 



The description of the female of M. samarensis is as fol- 

 lows : — Upper parts rusty brown, darkest on the crown, and 

 shading into chestnut on the upper tail-coverts, the super- 

 ciliary stripes of the male only represented by a white feather 

 or two on the sides of the occiput; wings and tail dark 

 brown, the exposed parts of the quills mostly chestnut ; sides 

 of the head and neck light rusty brown, palest round the 

 eye, and forming a rather marked ring ; underparts much 

 like those of the male, but the indistinct grey pectoral zone 

 is replaced by one tinged with rusty ; thighs brownish buff, 

 under tail-coverts buff. The type measures : — Total length 

 4'3 inches, culmen 0*55, wing 2*4, tail 1*45, tarsus 0*75. 



A second female measures : — Total length 4*3 inches, 

 culmen 0*59, wing 2*46, tail 1*48, tarsus 0-75. 



In general appearance the female of Muscicajmla sama- 

 rensis bears a close resemblance to Bhinomyias ruficauda, 

 the underparts being strangely alike in both. The latter 

 species is, however^ easily recognized by its much longer tail. 



