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Birds of Celebes: Muscicapidae. 
from nostril 8 ((J', Mt. Loka, N. Celebes, c. 1400 m, 8. X. 95: Sarasin Coll.; 
and others). 
Female. Like the male in coloration. 
Young (moulting). Differs from the adult in hawg a few (remaining) feathers on the scapulars 
each with a single large white subterminal spot, some of the upper tail-coverts tipped 
with white, the greater wing-coverts broadly edged with white: “iris dark sepia; legs 
black-brown; feet below yellowish; bill black, under mandible at the base yellow” 
((^f, Rurukan, N. Cel., 16. X. 94: Sarasin Coll.). 
Nest and eggs. Unrecorded. 
Distribution. China; Formosa; Phihppine Is. (Salvad. 2, Bourns & Worcester 14, 
Whitehead dl, 10, Platen 7, Everett 15, 20); Talaut Islands (Xat. Coll. 17); 
Celebes (alj; — X. Peninsxda (P. & F. Sarasin 16, Xat. Coll., Mus. Dresd.); S. 
Peninsula (P. & F. Sarasin 18, Everett 10); Morty, Halmahera, Batcliian, Tidore, 
Amboina, Cei’am, Xew Guinea (Salvad. 2); Ternate (Fischer 5); Waigiou and 
Mysol (Guillem. 6). 
A migratory Flycatcher — apparently the eastern representative of the 
European M. grisola — the breeding-grounds of which seem to be North China, 
the winter quarters the chain of East India Islands which form a coast-line to 
the Pacific. Abbe David remarks that it is very abundant in summer in all 
China, passing Pekin twice a year — in May and June and in August and 
September, and, as Mr. Sty an observed, it passes through the Lower Yangtse 
Basin in May and August. It nests, therefore, apparently north of Pekin. Its 
descent into its winter quarters is probably made by way of Formosa and the 
intermediate small islands to the Philippines. Mr. Whitehead observed it to 
be “a winter migrant to Palawan, arriving about the 10*’" September”, and we 
find no dates to show that any remain in the East Indies in summer'). 
For a long time its right to be inchided in the Celebes list rested only upon 
the fact that the island is marked as a locality for it in Finsch’s “Neu-Gui- 
nea”, 168; whence Gray’s similar indication seems to be drawn (Handl. I, 321); 
but from general reasons it was certain to occur there. Positive evidence was 
furnished by the Sarasins, who got seven specimens in the hill-country of 
the Minahassa in September; October and November, 1894, and one from Mt. 
Bonthain in October, 1895; Mr. Everett also got it on the foot-hills of Mt. 
Bonthain in 1895 sometime after September 28*’", and a specimen was killed 
in March, 1895, and sent from the Minahassa by our native collectors. One 
specimen was obtained , by the same in the Talaut Islands in November, 1894, 
but in the autumn of 1896 it seems to have visited these islands in greater 
force, 14 specimens having been then shot and sent to the Dresden Museum. 
Some of these are now at Tring. 
*) Dr. Fischer’s note, therefore, that it occurs alf the year round on the Island of Ternate (b), must 
he regarded as erroneous and misleading, and for similar reasons some of his ohservations on other species 
fall to the ground. 
