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What

Brown-breasted Flycatcher (Muscicapa muttui)

Observer

antonygrossy

Date

November 15, 2014

Place

Kotagiri (Google, OSM)

Description

Wish I too had a bird named after me for posterity......

The Brown Breasted Flycatcher or Layard's Flycatcher (Muscicapa muttui).... is a migrant flycatcher species that breeds in north eastern India, central and Southern China and northern Burma and Thailand, and migrates to southern India and Sri Lanka.

The flycatcher is 13 to14 cm in length and weighs between 10 to14 gms. The overall colour of the upperparts is olive brown. Some of the feather shafts are darker. The upper tail coverts are brighter rufous as are the edges of the flight feathers. The tail feathers have rufous on the outer webs. The lores are pale and the eye ring is conspicuous. The chin and throat are white while the breast and sides of the body are pale brown. The middle of the body to the vent is buffy white. Submoustachial stripes are faint but marke the boundary of the pale chin while the legs and lower mandible are pale flesh coloured.

The most confusable species is the brown flycatcher but the more extensive rufous and distinctive patterns of this species make it easy to separate.

It was named by Layard after Muttu, his servant who brought him the specimen.

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