388 Birds of Celebes: Muscicapidae. 
Measurements (7 examples). Wing 58. (Q) — 63 mm; tail c. 50; tarsus c. 13; bill from 
nostril c. 6.5. 
Distribution. Oelebesian and Pbilippine areas: Celebes — Minabassa (Wall, a I, 2, G-nilL, 
P. & F. Sarasin, Nat. Coll.); South Peninsula (Everett 6, Doherty 7); Banggai 
Island (Nat. Coll.); Saleyer Island (Everett 6). Philippines — Luzon, Panay, 
Negros, Tawi-Tawi, Tablas, Eomblon, Sibuyan, Guimaras, Masbate, Siquijor, Palawan 
(Moseley, Steere, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead c? 7, e 2, e 3, e 4, e 5, 5, 8). 
Until the last year or two this little Flycatcher was known only from the 
northern province of Celebes, the Minahassa; but it has now been discovered 
south as far as Saleyer and east as far as Banggai, and Mr. Ogilvie Grant 
has found the bird in the Philippines to be identical, so adding a broad area 
to its range in the north. 
The wide-spread C. ceylonensis (Swains.) ranging from the Himalayas to 
Ceylon, Java, and Borneo differs in having the entire head and throat ashy grey, 
and C.helianthea was separated from it nominally by Dr. Sharpe as a different 
genus (c 1)^ but no generic characters were pointed out, and later the author 
reunited them with Ciilicicapa. 
Mr. Wallace mentions C . helianthea as a Himalayan type in Celebes; the 
genus, however, is as much Sundan as Himalayan. To the east Culicicapa is 
not known in the Australian Eegion, and, like nearly all the other Flycatchers 
of Celebes, it seems to suggest the probability of the former connection of the 
island with Asia, and separation by the sea from Australasia. 
GENUS GERYGONE J. Gd. 
The position of this genus seems to be between the Muscicapidae and 8yl- 
viidae. The sexes are similar in coloration and the young are probably very 
like them, though at least one species (G.hrunneipectus) has brownish edgings to 
the feathers of the breast. The tarsus is rather large, much longer than the 
middle toe, by which it approaches the Waihlers; the bill is more Flycatcher- 
like, of moderate size, about IV 2 times as broad across the nostril as deep, the 
nasal area is membranous, the aperture long oval apparently, the rictal bristles 
few and rather small; wing longer than tail, the 3’"'^, 4*’" and b*’' quills the longest, 
the second equal to, or a little longer than the secondaries. The genus is 
pre-eminently Australasian, but occurs west as far as Borneo. 
+ * 140. GERYGONE FLAVEOLA Cab. 
Drab-and-yellow Flycatcher. 
Gerygone flaveola (1) Cab., 
Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, 
(V) id.. Cat. B. lY, 
125; (7) Guillem., 
J. f. 0. 1873, 157; (2) Meyer, t. c. 404; (3J Salvad. , Ann. 
yil, 665; (4) Sharpe, Notes Leyden Mus. 1878, I, 29, part.; 
1879, 214, part., pi. Y, fig. 2; (6) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 117, 
P. Z. S. 1885, 263, pt., 414, pt. ; (8) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ- 
