Birds of Celebes; Muscicapidae. 
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capa — are typically Oriental, and do not occur in the Australian Region, 
though in some of the Lesser Sunda Islands. They are: Siphia, Stoparola, Hypo- 
thymis^ Muscicapula^ and Oulicicapa; these are all absent on the eastern side of 
the Molucca Straits. The Long-tailed Flycatchers, Terpsiphone^ of the Ethiopian 
and Indian Regions as far as the Lesser Sunda Islands, have not yet been found 
in Celebes. 
GENUS MUSCICAPA L. after Briss. 
The typical Flycatchers are small birds of plain plumage — chiefly brown 
above and streaked with brown below, or black and white; the wing is long, 
much longer than the tail, the secondaries about iBe wing-length, the first 
quill very minute, the second one long, as long or longer than the fifth; bill 
rather small, with scanty rictal and frontal bristles; tarsus shorter than the 
middle toe and claw, blackish in colour. The more typical species are Palae- 
arctic and migratory. 
120. MUSCICAPA GRISEOSTICTA (Swinh.). 
Chinese Flycatcher. 
a. Muscieapa hypogrammiea (Gray), (1) Finsch, Neu Guinea 1865, 168; (2) W. Blasius, 
J. f. 0. 1883, 115. 
h. Butalis hypogrammiea (1) Wald., Tr. Z. 8. 1872, YIN, 66. 
c. Butalis griseosticta (Swinh.), (1) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 122. 
Muscieapa griseosticta (1) Sharpe, Cat. B. lY, 1879, 153; (^5^ Salvad., Orn. Pap. 1881, II, 
80; (3) W. Bias., P. Z. S. 1882, 706; (5) Pleske, Bull. Ac. Petersb. 1884, 123; 
. (6) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 632; (7) W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 311; (8) Everett, 
J.Str.Br.R.A.8. 1889, 127; (9) Salvad., Agg. Orn. Pap. 1890, 81; Whitehead, 
Ibis 1890, 49; (11) Styan, Ibis 1891, 322, 349; (12) Hartert, J. f. 0. 1891, 294; 
(13) De La Touche, Ibis 1892, 408, 424; (14) Bourns & Worces., B. Menage 
Exp. 1894, 40; (15) Grant, Ibis 1895, 441; (16) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, 
Nr. 8, p. 8; (17) iid., ib. 1895, Nr. 9, p. 4; (18) tid., ib. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 9; (19) 
Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 156; (20) Grant, Ibis 1896, 540. 
d. Muscieapa manillensis (Bp.) (1) Sharpe, Ibis 1888, 200. 
“Monotaroda” or “Manudorio”, Talaut, Nat. Coll. 
“Burong pohon”, Minahassa, iid. 
For further synonymy and references see Sharpe 7; Salvadori 2. 
Descriptions. Sharpe 7; Salvadori 2\ W. Blasius 5; David & Oust. cl. 
Adult male. Above grey-brown (almost hair-brown; Ridgway), the feathers of the head 
above with darker middles, the wing-coverts with paler edgings, the inner secondaries 
with whitish edgings; remiges and terminal part of tail blackish brown; under parts 
white, streaked with ' grey-brown on the breast, sides, jugulum and sides of throat; 
supraloral region and around the eye whitish, in front of eye duskier; under wing- 
coverts dark fawn; “iris dark sepia; bill black, base of under mandible yellow; legs 
and feet black” ; P. & F. S. 
Measurements. Wing 83—87 mm; tail c. 50; tarsus 14; middle toe and claw c. 15.5; bill 
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