442 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Species. 



a 1 . A conspicuous white patch on wing; upper parts black; lower parts white 



(male) westermanni (p. 442) 



a 1 . No white wing-patch. 



6 1 . Above smoky slate-gray (males). 

 c 1 . Under parts largely orange-buff. 



d l . Chin, throat, and breast orange-buff; abdomen white. 



e l . White eye-brow stripe about 10 mm. in length luzoniensis (p. 443) 



e*. White eye-brow stripe reduced to a small patch.... montigena (p. 444) 

 d?. Chin pure white ; throat and breast rich orange-buff., nigrorum ( p. 443 ) 

 c 2 . Under parts mostly white; breast and flanks washed with slate-gray. 

 <P. Head lighter; tail darker; superciliary stripe smaller. 



basilanica (p. 444) 

 d 2 . Head darker; tail lighter; superciliary stripe lar^-r. 



samarensis ( p. 445 ) 



I s . Above gray, washed with olive-brown; rump and tail washed with reddish 

 brown (females). 



403. MUSCICAPULA WESTERMANNI Sharpe. 

 WESTEBMANN'S FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapula westermanni SHARPE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1888), 270; Hand-List 

 (1901), 3, 224; GATES and REID, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1903), 3, 264, pi. 7, 

 fig. 20; McGBEGOB and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 72. 



Muscicapula maculata WIUTEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 104 (habits, song). 



Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor); Mindanao (Mearns, Goodfellow) ; Negros 

 ( Whitehead). Mountains of Celebes, of northwestern Borneo, and of the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



Adult male. Above, including sides of head and neck, deep black; 

 a wide white band over eye, extending from above lores to nape; lower 

 parts white; wing blackish brown; greater coverts and edges of inner 

 secondaries white, forming a conspicuous patch; tail black, all the 

 rectrices, except the middle pair, with their basal halves white. Iris 

 dark brown; bill, legs, and nails black. Length, about 115; wing, 59; 

 tail, 43 ; culmen from base, 12 ; bill from nostril, 7 ; tarsus, 16. 



Adult female. Above ashy, washed with olive-brown, the latter color 

 strongest on the rump; tail-coverts' and edges of rectrices rusty brown; 

 below white; breast, sides, and flanks washed with ashy brown; wings 

 and tail blackish brown. Wing, 56; tail, 40; bill from nostril, 7; 

 tarsus, 161. 



Young. Above slate-gray, heavily washed with olive-brown, the fea- 

 thers with median spots of ochraceous; below white, the feathers fringed 

 with blackish brown; wing-coverts and secondaries edged with light 

 ochraceous; tips of the greater coverts forming a light bar. 



Westermann's flycatcher is very common in Benguet Province, Luzon, 

 where it breeds. 



