-60 PASSERES. 



Flycatchers by its large size (wing 3^ inches or more), aud by its 

 large pale patch on the throat. 



Young in first plumage are, like young Thrushes, spotted with buff 

 and barred with black on both the upper and under parts. 



24. SIPHIA LUTEOLA. 



(MUGIMAKI PLYCATCHEE.) 



Motadlla luteola, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 470 (1827). 



The male Mugimaki Flycatcher is slate-grey above, with a white 

 eye-stripe, a white patch on the shoulder, and white at the base of 

 most of the tail-feathers. The throat and breast are orange-chestnut, 

 shading into white on the belly and under tail-coverts. In the 

 female the slate-grey of the male is replaced by olive, but the white 

 on the wings and tail remains. 



Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 17 b 

 (male) . 



The Mugimaki Flycatcher appears to be an accidental visitor to 

 Japan on migration. The Siebold Expedition only obtained a soli- 

 tary example, probably at Nagasaki; a single example is in the 

 museum at Sapporo, in Yezzo (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. 

 Japan, 1883, p. 148) ; and a young male was obtained at Tate-yama, 

 in the centre of the main island, in autumn (Jouy, Proc. United 

 States Nat. Mus. 1883, p. 305). 



This species breeds in Eastern Siberia from Lake Baikal to the 

 mouth of the Amoor, passes through China and Formosa on migra- 

 tion, and winters in Borneo. 



The Mugimaki Flycatcher belongs to the genus Siphia, in which, 

 although the sexes differ in colour, they agree in having the base of 

 the tail more or less white and the upper tail-coverts nearly black. 

 The genus was established in 1837 (Hodgson, Indian Review, i. 

 p. 651), and Siphia strophiata is the type. 



It is the only Japanese Flycatcher which has white at the base of 

 the tail in both sexes. The male of the Japanese Blue Flycatcher 

 has white at the base of the tail, but neither sex has dark upper 

 tail-coverts. 



