HYPOTHYMIS. 451 



tail as in male,, but rather more greenish blue ; lores and anterior part of 

 cheeks rufescent buff; ear-coverts ashy brown, with whitish shaft-lines; 

 throat, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white ; fore-neck, chest, and sides 

 of body ashy brown; under wing-coverts and axillars ashy brown, the 

 edge of the wing blue. 'Bill blackish brown, legs grayish brown, iris 

 dark brown/ (Swinhoe.) Wing, 89; tail, 61; tarsus, 15. 



"Young male. Similar to old female, but having the back greenish 

 blue, only the head and neck ashy brown, even the crown being slightly 

 shaded with blue; upper tail-coverts with white edgings; wings and tail 

 as in adult, the outer greater coverts tipped with buff; below as in 

 female, but having the throat ochraceous, the breast washed with ocher, 

 as also the sides of the body." (Sharpe.) 



The Japanese blue flycatcher is a rare winter visitant to the Philippine 

 Islands. 



Genus HYPOTHYMIS Boie, 1826. 



Bill flattened and depressed for its entire length, the outline not 

 curved inward toward the tip; depth of bill at nostril nearly two-thirds 

 of the width; bill from nostril more than one-half the tarsus; rictal 

 bristles conspicuous, the longest equal to bill from nostril; wings short, 

 about equal -to tail; first primary equal to one-half of third; fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth subequal and longest ; seventh greater than third ; second 

 primary shorter than the secondaries; tail slightly graduated, outermost 

 feathers shorter than middle pair by about one-third the length of tarsus ; 

 feathers of head short and soft, occipital crest short; dominative color 

 blue, abdomen white. 



413. HYPOTHYMIS OCCIPITALIS (Vigors). 



BLACK-NAPED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa occipitalis VIGORS, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1831), 97. 

 Hypothymis occipitalis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 274; 

 Hand-List (1901), 3, 248; GATES and REID, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1903), 3, 

 273; MCGREGOR, Bur. Govt. Labs. Manila (1905), 34, 18, pi. 13 

 (nest); MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 73. 

 Hypothymis azurea GRANT and WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 237 (eggs); 

 WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 106. 



Pi-pit a-zul, Manila. 



Bantayan (McGregor}; Banton (Celestino) ; Basilan (Stcere, Everett, Bourns 

 & Worcester, McGregor)-, Bohol (Steer e Exp., McGregor)-, Bongao (Everett): 

 Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester) ; Caluya (Porter) ; Cebu (Everett, Bourns & 

 Worcester, McGregor); Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); 

 Leyte (Steere Exp.) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Everett, Steere Exp., Mollen- 

 dorff, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Maestre de Campo (McGregor 

 & Worcester); Malanipa (Murray); Marinduque (Steere Exp.); Masbate 

 (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & 

 Worcester, Goodfellow, Celestino ) ; Mindoro ( Steere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns & 

 Worcester, Everett, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Negros (Layard, Everett, Steere Exp., 

 Bourns d Worcester, Keay) ; Palawan ( Whit ehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns 

 & Worcester, White); Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Romblon 



