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Birds of Celebes: Muscicapidae. 
Mountains (P. & F. Sarasin 10, Everett 11, Doherty 12)-, Java (Yorderman 6, 
Doherty II); Bah (Doherty ii); Lomhok (Doherty and Everett 11]-, Sumhawa 
(Doherty 11). 
Since its discovery in Perak in 1888 mucli has been learnt about this little 
species, and it is now known to range from Tenasserirn to the Philippines, 
Celebes, and Sumbawa, It seems to inhabit only the high mountain-regions. 
In Java Doherty got it at 9000—10000 feet; in Borneo, according to White- 
head, it ranges from 4000—9000 feet; in Celebes it has as yet been found only 
on the lofty Peak of Bonthain and the mountains abutting on it. It was found 
here by the Sarasins and by Everett at about the same time, and that it 
breeds here in the latter half of the year is shown by quite young specimens 
in both collections. 
It bears, sex for sex, some resemblance to Lalage which may be regarded 
as a distant relative of very large size. From M. hyperythra., its fellow-inhabitant 
of the hills of these parts, it differs not only by its coloration, but by its smaller 
feet and claws, which are blackish in colour, by its smaller first primary, and 
flatter bill. It is closely allied to M. melanoleuca (Hodgs.) of the Himalayas and 
E. India, the female of which, according to Sharpe and Grant, is much browner 
above, but the males appear to be exactly similar. 
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f 122. MUSOICAPULA HYPERYTHRA (Blyth). 
Bufous-breasted Blue Flycatcher. 
Plate XIII. 
a. Dimorpha superciliaris (nec Jerd.), (1) Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1842, XI, 190. 
h. Muscicapa hyperythra (1) Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1842, XT , 885. 
Muscicapula hyperythra ( 1 ) Sharpe, Oat. B. IV, 1879, 206; ( 2 ) id.. Ibis 1888, 385; ( 3 ) 
Everett, J. Str. Br. B. A. S. 1889, 127; ( 4 ) Sharpe, Ibis 1890, 276, 291; ( 5 ) id.. 
Ibis 1893, 551; ( 6 ) Hose, t. c. 396; ( 7 ) Grant, Ibis 1894, 505; ( 8 ) M. & Wg., Abh. 
Mus. Dresd. 1895, Xr. 8, p. 9; ( 9 ) Hart., Xov. Zool. 1896, 156, 548, 561, 569, 595; 
( 10 ) id., ib. 1897, 158. 
c. Cyornis hyperythrus ( 1 ) Oates ed. Hume’s Nests & Eggs Ind. 1890, H, 2; ( 2 ) id.. Faun. 
Br. Ind. B. 1890, H, 15. 
For further synonymy and references see Sharpe 7, Oates c 2. 
Bescriptions. Sharpe 1, Oates c 2. 
Adult male. Above dark slaty blue; alula, remiges and tail blackish; supraloral stripe 
extending above the eye white; lores and base of forehead, malar region, 
angle of chin, and ear-coverts blackish, washed with slaty blue; throat and 
breast orange-rufous, pahng into whitish on abdomen and under tail-coverts; thighs 
ofive, washed with slaty blue ; sides Avashed with ohve and rufous ; under wing-coverts 
whitish, edge of wing slaty blue ((^f ad., Masarang hills, N. Cel., 16. YH. 94: Sarasin 
Coll.). 
“Legs and feet very pale silvery to fleshy pink, the terminal joints, of the toes 
and the claws slightly brownish; bill black; iris deep brown” — Hume. 
