- a1. Head, chin, and throat gray, in contrast with the remainder of the plumage. ceylonensis (p. [472])
- a2. Head, chin, and throat yellow, uniform with the adjacent parts of the body. helianthea (p. [472])
435. CULICICAPA CEYLONENSIS (Swainson).
GRAY-HEADED YELLOW FLYCATCHER.
- Platyrhynchus ceylonensis Swainson, Zool. Illustr. (1820), ser. 1, 1, pl. 13.
- Culicicapa ceylonensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 369; Hand-List (1901), 3, 268; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 38, fig. 16 (bill); Oates and Reid, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 283, pl. 9, fig. 6; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 75.
Palawan (Platen). Khasi Hills, Indian Peninsula, mountains of northwestern Borneo, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, Java.
Adult male.—Top of head smoky gray; lores and sides of head lighter; remainder of upper parts light greenish yellow, rump a trifle lighter; wings and tail brown, the edges of the feathers greenish yellow, edges of secondaries lighter and more yellowish; chin, throat, and fore breast ashy gray; remainder of lower parts including axillars and wing-lining bright yellow. “Upper mandible black; lower mandible pale fleshy; feet olive-brown; soles yellow.” (Abbott.) “Iris dark hazel; bill brown, paler at the base and gape; mouth yellow; legs yellowish brown; claws horn-color.” (Oates.) Length, about 125; wing, 60; tail, 48; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 12. Here described from a specimen collected by Abbott in Trong, Lower Siam.
436. CULICICAPA HELIANTHEA (Wallace).
YELLOW FLYCATCHER.
- Muscicapa helianthea Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1865), 476.
- Xantholestes panayensis Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 327.
- Culicicapa panayensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 371.
- Culicicapa hilianthea Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 109 (habits).
- Culicicapa helianthea Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 268; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 75.
Bongao (Everett); Cebu (Bourns & Worcester); Leyte (Whitehead); Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor); Mindanao (Mearns); Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Palawan (Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Everett, Bourns & Worcester); Panay (Steere); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester). Celebes, Banggai and Saleyer Islands.