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Photo by Dr Manjeet Singh
Pondamaran-jaya, Port Klang, Selangor, Malaysia, August 2008

Muscicapa williamsoni

Identification

Resembles Asian Brown Flycatcher but has distinct brownish streaks on breast, upper belly and flanks and broad buffy to orange-buff wing-fringing at upperwing coverts. Bill is also slightly larger with pale yellowish and usually dark-tipped lower mandible.

Distribution

Found from southern Myanmar to peninsular Thailand, Malaysia, southern Vietnam and Sumatra.

Taxonomy

Two subspecies recognized:

• M. w. williamsoni from southern Myanmar to northern Malaysia, winters south to Sumatra and Siberut
• M. w. umbrosa in Borneo (Sarawak, eastern Sabah, and southeastern Kalimantan), perhaps also central Peninsula Malaysia and Sumatra

It was formerly included in Asian Brown Flycatcher.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/

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