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the tone and intensity of the brown color both on the upper and under 

 surface, and also in the uniform or mottled color on the breast. The 

 coloration of the throat is very different in individuals, being in some 

 almost uniform brown, succeeded by a jugular spot of white. 



"Young (Peking, Sept. 1868, E. Swinhoe). Ashy brown, mottled 

 with whitish streaks and terminal spots to the feathers, the greater 

 coverts edged and tipped with buffy white, the rest of the coverts 

 spotted with whitish at the tips like the back; primary-coverts and quills 

 dark brown, the inner secondaries edged and tipped with pale rufous; 

 under surface very thickly mottled with brown, the feathers being white 

 with dusky brown edges." (Sharpe.) 



The Siberian flycatcher must be considered a rare winter visitant to 

 the Philippine Islands. 



395. HEMICHELIDON GRJSEOSTICTA Swinhoe. 

 GRAY-SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 



Hemichelidon griseosticta SWINHOE, Ibis (1861), 330. 



Muscicapa griseisticta SHARPE, Cat\ Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 153; 



WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 104 (winter). 

 Hemichelidon griseisticta SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 204; MCGREGOR 



and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 71. 



Au-d, Cagayancillo. 



Bohol (McGregor)-, Basilan (McGregor) Cagayancillo (McGregor); Caga- 

 yan Sulu (McGregor)-, Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Calayan 

 (McGregor); Caluya (Porter); Catanduanes ( Whitehead) ; Cuyo (McGregor); 

 Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Everett, Schmacker, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Mas- 

 bate (Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Negros 

 (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester] ; Palawan (Whitehead, Platen, 

 Bourns & Worcester, White) ; Panay (Steere) ; Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester, 

 Celestino) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns d Worcester). Japan, China, Ussuri Land, New 

 Guinea, Celebes, Moluccas. 



Adult (sexes similar). Above dusky brown; centers of feathers and 

 head darker; wings and 'tail blackish brown; secondaries and wing- 

 coverts fringed with white; below white; breast and sides of throat and 

 of abdomen marked with wide, dusky brown shaft-streaks; middle of 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts white; feathers of thighs brown, tipped 

 with white. A male from Benguet measures: Length, 133; wing, 86; 

 tail, 51; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 8. A female from 

 Culion measures: Length, 127; wing, 80; tail, 45; culmen from base, 

 11; bill from nostril, 7. The folded wing reaches nearly or quite to the 

 end of the tail. 



In the gray-spotted flycatcher there is some variation in the brown 

 streaks of the under parts, but this species is not easily mistaken for any 

 other bird except Piprisoma ceruginosum which has a very differently 

 shaped bill. The gray-spotted flycatcher is one of the commonest winter 

 visitants and is found in small numbers throughout the islands. 



