Rufous-browed Flycatcher Anthipes solitaris Scientific name definitions

12–13 cm. Small, large-headed flycatcher with brilliant white throat. Nominate race has crown and upperparts, including upperwing and tail, rich rufous-brown, inner webs of flight-feathers and tail darker brown; distinctive face pattern of bright rufous lores to over eye (where brightest) and extending to cheek, ear-coverts and neck side; chin and throat pure white with narrow black border; breast warm buffish-brown, flanks pale buffish, centre of belly to undertail-coverts white; iris dark brown; bill blackish; legs pink, purplish-pink or pinkish-brown. Sexes alike. Juvenile lacks white chin and throat, is heavily streaked buffish above and below, with greater coverts tipped buff (forming indistinct wingbar). Race malayanus has lores and face bright rufous, crown and upperparts darker rufous-brown and breast side and flanks duller brown than nominate; submoniliger is similar to previous, but rufous on lores and face paler, upperparts slightly olive-tinged, white on throat and upper breast has very thin (usually on upper breast only) or no black border, breast side and flanks duller brown, centre of belly to undertail-coverts whitish.

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Diet not well known, but includes small invertebrates . Usually solitary or in pairs. Active, and forages noisily in lower levels of forest trees, at forest edge, in dense undergrowth, in lush vegetation along forest streams, or on the ground on forest paths; tame and approachable. Often forages from exposed perch, making occasional short aerial pursuit of insects. Also spends long periods motionless on deeply shaded perch.

Song a slow, thin or high-pitched tremulous warble, commonly rendered as a descending “three blind mice”, but more often a longer series of e.g. “li lu le luu lii luu” or “tii tu la tiii-tu”. Calls include thin, high-pitched “tseep”, also sharp “tchik” or “tek”, and repeated “tik-tik” and harsh churring as alarm.