Muscicapula nigrorum Whitehead, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1897), 6,
43; Ibis (1899), 106 (habits, plumage); Sharpe, Hand-List (1901),
3, 224; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 72.
Negros (Whitehead).
"Male adult.--Most nearly allied to M. luzoniensis Grant. The
general color of the upper parts less gray, but dark slaty blue as
in M. hyperythra. The chin is pure white, the rest of the under parts
richer orange-buff; belly white.
"Female adult.--General color of the upper parts dull slate-gray,
and not grayish olive-brown as in the female of M. luzoniensis;
lores and feathers round the eye whiter; breast and under parts as
in the male of M. luzoniensis." (Whitehead.)