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first two or three primaries; lores buffy white; ring of short feathers 

 around eye chestnut; ear-coverts and sides of hind neck fulvous-brown, 

 the former w*ith lighter shaft-stripes; center of throat and fore breast 

 white, grayish along sides; breast and flanks washed with light fulvous- 

 brown; abdomen and under tail-coverts white, the latter faintly tipped 

 with brown ; thighs olive-brown ; under wing-coverts and axillars whitish ; 

 inner webs of secondaries edged with buffy white. 



"The peculiar ring of feathers round the eye forms a noticeable char- 

 acter by which this species is readily distinguished from other Philippine 

 representatives of the genus. Iris brown; bill light slaty brown." 

 (Bourns and Worcester.) 



"Fairly abundant in the forests of Sulu and Tawi Tawi. Food usually 

 insects. Two specimens, however, had been eating fruit. Five males 

 from Tawi Tawi measure: Length, 152; wing, 75; tail, 47; culmen, 17; 

 tarsus, 18; middle toe with claw, 18. Four females from Sulu, length, 

 154; wing, 78; tail, 50; culmen, 17; tarsus, 19 ; middle toe with claw, 19. 

 Iris brown ; legs, feet, and nails pale slate to light brown ; upper mandible 

 dark brown, lower light brown." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



434. RHINOMYIAS INSIGNIS Grant. 

 LUZON RHINOMYIAS. 



Rhinomyias insignis GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. (1895), 4, 40; Ibis 

 (1895), 442, pi. 12, fig. 2; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 109; SHARPE, 

 Hand-List (1901), 3, 267; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 

 (1906), 75. 



Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor). 



"Adult male and female. The sexes of this extremely handsome fly- 

 catcher are perfectly similar to one another in plumage, and most nearly 

 resemble R. gularis Sharpe, from Kina Balu, though the differences are 

 remarkably striking. Upper parts olive, washed with sienna on the rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail; the superciliary stripes, chin, and throat- 

 patch, middle of lower breast and belly, and under tail-coverts pure white ; 

 lores and fore part of the cheeks blackish; rest of cheeks, ear-coverts, 

 and sides of throat olive washed with rufous, the latter color gradually 

 increasing in intensity on the chest and upper breast, and becoming clear 

 rust-red on the sides and flanks. Quills washed with reddish olive instead 

 of sienna. Adult male, length, 162; wing, 89; tail, 66;. tarsus, 28. 

 Adult female, length, 160 ; wing, 86 ; tail, 63 ; tarsus, 28. 



"This species is evidently distantly related to R. albigularis from Ne- 

 gros and Guimaras and R. ocularis from Sulu and Tawi Tawi, described 

 by Bourns and Worcester, Occ. Papers Minnesota Acad. (1894), 1, 27, 28. 

 It resembles both these species in having the middle of the throat, belly, 

 and under tail-coverts white, but may be at once distinguished by the 

 strongly marked white superciliary stripes and clear rust-red of the sides 

 and flanks." (Grant.) 



