A Manual of Philippine Birds - Richard C. McGregor

The black paradise flycatcher is abundant in Batan. Its flight is easy and graceful but rather slow. The call is harsh and cat-like; the song is simple and of limited range, consisting of several clear notes uttered in rapid succession.

The short-tailed black males of this flycatcher agree with the description of Callaeops periopthalmica, but the identity of the two species has not been established.

Genus RHINOMYIAS Sharpe, 1879.

Tip of bill overhanging, with a notch near the tip; bill depressed at nostril; rictal bristles moderate; first primary little more than one-half of second which is less than third, fourth longest; tarsus slender, equal to less than one-third the length of tail; bill from nostril more than one-half the length of tarsus.

Species.[57]

a¹. Without any distinct eyebrow-stripe.
- b¹. Under parts white, with a wide, strongly marked, pectoral band dividing the throat from the breast and belly; no white patch in front of eye. albigularis (p. [468])
- b². Under parts whitish with no pectoral band, or with mere traces of one.
  - c¹. No ring of chestnut feathers around eye; a gray patch in front of eye. ruficauda (p. [470])
  - c². A ring of chestnut feathers around eye ocularis (p. [470])
a². With a distinct white eyebrow-stripe.
- b¹. Crown olive; lores and fore part of cheeks blackish; pectoral band olive, washed with rufous, shading into clear rust-red on sides and flanks. insignis (p. [471])
- b². Crown dull black; general color above, including wings and tail, dark slate; below whitish goodfellowi (p. [469])

430. RHINOMYIAS ALBIGULARIS Bourns and Worcester.

WHITE-THROATED RHINOMYIAS.

Rhinomyias albigularis Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 27; Grant, Ibis (1896), 541; Grant and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 237, pl. 5, fig. 3 (egg); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 109; Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 267; Oates and Reid, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 282; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 75.