Muscicapula montigena Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18,
8; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 72.
K'rí-kri, or sal-yb-seé-bon, Bagobo of Mount Apo.
Mindanao (Mearns).
"Adult male (two specimens).--General color of upper parts
including lores, eye-ring, and sides of head dark slaty blue; white
eyebrow-stripe reduced to small supraorbital patches; rump slightly
washed with olivaceous; upper tail-coverts reddish burnt-umber;
tail-feathers burnt-umber; wing-coverts like the back; quills
grayish brown, edged with reddish brown externally and with fawn-color
internally; under parts, except belly and sides, ochraceous, palest on
the chin and under tail-coverts, belly whitish; sides bluish slate;
lining and edge of wing ochraceous-buff. Length, 128; alar expanse,
208; wing, 65; tail, 51; bill from anterior border of nostril, 8.1;
culmen, 10.5; tarsus, 18.5; middle toe with claw, 15.5. Iris brown;
bill black; feet and claws light gray.
"Adult female (two specimens).--Similar to the adult male except that
the slaty blue of the back and rump are more perceptibly washed with
olivaceous, and the lores, eye-ring, and touches on the ear-coverts
are ochraceous-buff. Length, 125; alar expanse, 197; wing, 62; tail,
47; bill from anterior border of nostril, 7.5; culmen, 10.5; tarsus,
18; middle toe with claw, 16.5. Iris brown; bill black; feet and
claws grayish flesh-color.
"Immature female.--Similar to adult females, but paler below, with
obscure spotting across the chest and on the sides." (Mearns.)
This species was discovered by Mearns on Mount Apo at 1,800 meters
altitude.