Birds of Celebes: Musoicapidae. 
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GENUS MUSCICAPULA Blyth. 
These small Flycatchers differ from Muscicapa by their shorter, blunter wing, 
the second primary being shorter than the fifth, and the secondary quills rela- 
tively much longer than in that genus, being about Vs the length of the wing; 
and the sexes are different in coloration. The species M. hyperythra stands 
perhaps nearer to the genus Siphia than it does to M. ivestermanni. The genus 
is Oriental. 
^121. MUSCICAPULA WESTERMANNI Sharpe. 
little Malay Pied Flycatcher. 
Muscicapula westermanni (1) Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1888, 270; (2) id., Ibis 1888, 385; (3) id., 
Ibis 1889, 196; (4) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 128; (5) Sharpe, Ibis 1890, 
276, 286, 291; (6) Yorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. LI, 1891, 389; (7) Grant, Ibis 1894, 
506; (8) id.. Ibis 1895, 442; (9) id.. Ibis 1896, 464, 540; (10) M. & Wg., Abb. 
Mus. Dresden 1896, Nr. 1, p. 9; (11) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 156, 541, 548, 561, 
569, 595; (12) id., ib. 1897, 158. 
Descriptions. Sharpe 7 (Q); Yorderman 6 [(f). 
Adult male. Upper parts, face, and ear-coverts glossy black; a broad superciliary 
stripe extending to the sides of the nape white; inner greater wing-coverts and 
a broad outer edging on the three inner remiges white; the five lateral pairs of 
rectrices white at their base for about V'2 their length in the outermost, increasing to 
about V4 in the fifth pair, middle pair white at base only; chin, throat, and 
under parts white; thighs hlacldsh; remiges below dusky, the inner edges, where 
they rest upon the body, whitish: “iris grey; feet blackish; hill black” — Doherty 72 
((V' ad. Erelompoa, N. W. from Loka, S. Celebes, c. 1300 m, 3. XI. 95: P. &. 
F. Sara sin). 
Female. Above dark bluish grey, with a slight tinge of brown on the head, stronger on 
the lower hack and rump, inclining to russet on the upper tail-coverts; wings dusky 
with histre-hrown edgings to the feathers (paler on the greater coverts), lesser coverts 
bistre; tail-feathers brown, externally ruf ous-hrown ; lores and cheeks whitish, 
tinged with buff, on the ear-coverts passing into the grey of the uj>per parts; 
chin, throat, and under parts greyish white; thighs brown: “iris dark” (Q, Lompo- 
batang, S. Cel., c. 2400 m, 6. XL 95: P. & F. Sarasin). 
Young (male). Remiges and tail black and white as in the adult male; remaining upper 
parts dull tawny, with black edges and bases to the feathers; below greyish white, 
the feathers of the breast and throat (faintly) barred with dusky (Bonthain Peak, 
S. Celebes, c. 1300 m: Sarasin Coll.). 
Measurements (2 cfcT? 1 $ ad. — South Cel.). Wing 54 — 55 mm; tail c. 40; tarsus c. 15; 
middle toe and claw c. 13; hill from nostril c. 7. 
Nest and Eggs. “The nest was placed in a creeper in the big forest, at about 40 feet from 
the ground; it was quite a small pile of moss, deep, and lined with fine white roots, 
a very pretty hit of work, and contained one small fawn-coloured egg. They would 
most probably have laid two eggs, after the manner of most species in these latitudes” 
(Whitehead 3). 
Distribution. Tenasserim (fide Grant 7); Perak (Wray 7); Borneo (Whitehead 2, 3, 4, 5); 
Philippines — Luzon and Negros (Whitehead 7, 8, 2); S. Celebes — Bonthain 
