The Japanese blue flycatcher is a rare winter visitant to the Philippine Islands.
Genus HYPOTHYMIS Boie, 1826.
Bill flattened and depressed for its entire length, the outline not curved inward toward the tip; depth of bill at nostril nearly two-thirds of the width; bill from nostril more than one-half the tarsus; rictal bristles conspicuous, the longest equal to bill from nostril; wings short, about equal to tail; first primary equal to one-half of third; fourth, fifth, and sixth subequal and longest; seventh greater than third; second primary shorter than the secondaries; tail slightly graduated, outermost feathers shorter than middle pair by about one-third the length of tarsus; feathers of head short and soft, occipital crest short; dominative color blue, abdomen white.
413. HYPOTHYMIS OCCIPITALIS (Vigors).
BLACK-NAPED FLYCATCHER.
- Muscicapa occipitalis Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1831), 97.
- Hypothymis occipitalis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 274; Hand-List (1901), 3, 248; Oates and Reid, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 273; McGregor, Bur. Govt. Labs. Manila (1905), 34, 18, pl. 13 (nest); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 73.
- Hypothymis azurea Grant and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 237 (eggs); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 106.
Pi-pit a-zul, Manila.
Bantayan (McGregor); Banton (Celestino); Basilan (Steere, Everett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Bohol (Steere Exp., McGregor); Bongao (Everett); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Caluya (Porter); Cebu (Everett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Leyte (Steere Exp.); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Everett, Steere Exp., Möllendorff, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor); Maestre de Campo (McGregor & Worcester); Malanipa (Murray); Marinduque (Steere Exp.); Masbate (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow, Celestino); Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester, Everett, Whitehead, McGregor); Negros (Layard, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Keay); Palawan (Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, White); Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Romblon (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Sibutu (Everett); Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns & Worcester); Tablas (Bourns & Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester); Ticao (McGregor); Verde (McGregor). Nicobar Islands, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, Flores, Lombok, Hainan, Formosa.
Male.—General color azure-blue, brighter on head, darker on back and rump and slightly purplish on breast; a narrow line on forehead, another on chin, and a round or oval patch on back of head, velvety black; a narrow crescent of black across breast; abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts white; thighs washed with blue; wings and tail black, the edges of the feathers washed with dark blue. Iris dark; bill blue, edged and tipped with black; eyelids and feet blue, nails black; inside of mouth pale greenish yellow. Length, about 160; wing, 65; tail, 65; culmen from base, 13; bill from nostril, 10; tarsus, 15.
Female.—Differs from the male in having the back, rump, wings, and tail brown, in lacking the nuchal patch and breast crescent, and in having the blue of head and throat somewhat duller and the breast bluish gray. Length, about 150; wing, 67; tail, 65; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 15.