Muscicapula westermanni Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1888), 270;
Hand-List (1901), 3, 224; Oates and Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs
(1903), 3, 264, pl. 7, fig. 20; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 72.
Muscicapula maculata Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 104 (habits, song).
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.