434. RHINOMYIAS INSIGNIS Grant.
LUZON RHINOMYIAS.

Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor).

“Adult male and female.—The sexes of this extremely handsome flycatcher are perfectly similar to one another in plumage, and most nearly resemble R. gularis Sharpe, from Kina Balu, though the differences are remarkably striking. Upper parts olive, washed with sienna on the rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail; the superciliary stripes, chin, and throat-patch, middle of lower breast and belly, and under tail-coverts pure white; lores and fore part of the cheeks blackish; rest of cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of throat olive washed with rufous, the latter color gradually increasing in intensity on the chest and upper breast, and becoming clear rust-red on the sides and flanks. Quills washed with reddish olive instead of sienna. Adult male, length, 162; wing, 89; tail, 66; tarsus, 28. Adult female, length, 160; wing, 86; tail, 63; tarsus, 28.

“This species is evidently distantly related to R. albigularis from Negros and Guimaras and R. ocularis from Sulu and Tawi Tawi, described by Bourns and Worcester, Occ. Papers Minnesota Acad. (1894), 1, 27, 28. It resembles both these species in having the middle of the throat, belly, and under tail-coverts white, but may be at once distinguished by the strongly marked white superciliary stripes and clear rust-red of the sides and flanks.” (Grant.)

A male of this species from Benguet Province was 170 in length. Iris light brown; bill black; legs and feet lead-blue.

Genus CULICICAPA Swinhoe, 1871.

Bill short and depressed, its depth at nostril little more than one-half the width; oral bristles numerous, the longest reaching nearly to tip of bill; first primary more than one-half of second and less than one-half of third; fourth and fifth nearly equal and longest; tarsus slender, equal to twice the bill from nostril; plumage largely yellow.

Species.