Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor); Mindanao (Mearns, Goodfellow); Negros (Whitehead). Mountains of Celebes, of northwestern Borneo, and of the Malay Peninsula.
Adult male.—Above, including sides of head and neck, deep black; a wide white band over eye, extending from above lores to nape; lower parts white; wing blackish brown; greater coverts and edges of inner secondaries white, forming a conspicuous patch; tail black, all the rectrices, except the middle pair, with their basal halves white. Iris dark brown; bill, legs, and nails black. Length, about 115; wing, 59; tail, 43; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 16.
Adult female.—Above ashy, washed with olive-brown, the latter color strongest on the rump; tail-coverts and edges of rectrices rusty brown; below white; breast, sides, and flanks washed with ashy brown; wings and tail blackish brown. Wing, 56; tail, 40; bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 161.
Young.—Above slate-gray, heavily washed with olive-brown, the feathers with median spots of ochraceous; below white, the feathers fringed with blackish brown; wing-coverts and secondaries edged with light ochraceous; tips of the greater coverts forming a light bar.
Westermann’s flycatcher is very common in Benguet Province, Luzon, where it breeds.
404. MUSCICAPULA LUZONIENSIS Grant.
GRANT’S FLYCATCHER.
- Muscicapula luzoniensis Grant, Ibis (1894), 505; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 105 (habits); Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 224; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 72.
Calayan (McGregor); Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor); Mindoro (Whitehead).
Adult male.—Entire upper parts and sides of neck dark slate-gray; lores, sides of head, and jaw black; from lores over eye a partly concealed band of pure silky white; wings blackish brown; coverts edged with slate-gray; tail similar but darker; chin, throat, breast, and flanks clear orange-buff, slightly darker on breast; a line of white on each side of throat next to the black of jaw; abdomen and under tail-coverts white; thighs blackish brown. Iris dark brown; bill black; legs white with a slight blue wash; nails light brown. Length of a male from Calayan, 127; wing, 67; tail, 50; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 19. In a slightly immature male from Calayan the greater coverts and secondaries are tipped with rusty buff.