444 MANUAL OP PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



"Male adult. Most nearly allied to M. luzoniensis Grant. The gen- 

 eral color of the upper parts less gray, but dark slaty blue as in M. 

 hyperythra. The chin is pure white, the rest of the under parts richer 

 orange-buff; belly white. 



"Female adult. General color of the upper parts dull slate-gray, and 

 not grayish olive-brown as in the female of M. luzoniensis; lores and 

 feathers round the eye whiter; breast and under parts as in the male of 

 M. luzoniensis." (Whitehead.) 



406. MUSCICAPULA MONTIGENA M<>n.n~. 

 MOUNT APO FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapula montigena MEABNS, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 8; 



MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 72. 

 K'ri-kri, or sal-yb-see-bon, Bagobo of Mount Apo. 

 Mindanao (M earns). 



"Adult male (two specimens). General color of upper parts including 

 lores, eye-ring, and sides of head dark slaty blue; white eyebrow-stripe 

 reduced to small supraorbital patches; rump slightly washed with oli- 

 vaceous; upper tail-coverts reddish burnt-umber; tail-feathers burnt- 

 umber ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills, grayish brown, edged with 

 reddish brown externally and with fawn-color internally; under parts, 

 except belly and sides, ochraceous, palest on the chin and under tail- 

 coverts, belly whitish; sides bluish slate; lining and edge of wing 

 ochraceous-buff. Length, 128; alar expanse, 208; wing, 65; tail, 51; 

 bill from anterior border of nostril, 8.1; culmen, 10.5; tarsus, 18.5; 

 middle toe with claw, 15.5. Iris brown; bill black; feet and claws 

 light gray. 



"Adult female (two specimens). Similar to the adult male except 

 that the slaty blue of the back and rump are more perceptibly washed 

 with olivaceous, and the lores, eye-ring, and touches on the ear-coverts 

 are ochraceous-buff. Length, 125; alar expanse, 197; wing, 62; tail, 

 47; bill from anterior border of nostril, 7.5; culmen, 10.5; tarsus, 18; 

 middle toe with claw, 16.5. Iris brown; bill black; feet and claws 

 grayish flesh-color. 



"Immature female. Similar to adult females, but paler below, with 

 obscure spotting across the chest and on the sides." (Mearns.) 



This species was discovered by Meams on Mount Apo at 1,800 meters 

 altitude. 



407. MUSCICAPULA BASILANICA (Sharpe). 

 BASILAN FLYCATCHER. 



Dendrobiastes basilanica SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 



332. 

 Muscicapula basilanica SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 224; McGREGOR and 



WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 72. 



Muscicapula mindanensis BLASIUS, Jour, fur Ornith. (1890), 147. 

 Basilan (Steere, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor] Mindanao (Platen, Bourns 

 & Worcester, Celestino). 



