Rhinomyias insignis Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. (1895), 4,
40; Ibis (1895), 442, pl. 12, fig. 2; Whitehead, Ibis (1899),
109; Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 267; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 75.
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.
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)