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Ficedula mugimaki
Rare visitor: recorded only occasionally in this country
Range
Eastern Asia
Size
13–13.5cm
The mugimaki flycatcher is 13–13.5 centimetres long, with a rattling call, and often flicks its wings and tail. The adult male has blackish upperparts with a short white supercilium behind the eye, a white wing patch, white edges to the tertials and white at the base of the outer tail feathers. The breast and throat are orange-red, and the belly and undertail-coverts are white. (Wikipedia, general species account)
The female is grey-brown above with a pale orange-brown breast and throat, lacks white in the tail, has one or two pale wingbars rather than a white wing patch, and has a faint or absent supercilium. A small passerine of eastern Asia in the Old World flycatcher family, it is also known as the robin flycatcher. The name mugimaki comes from Japanese and means wheat-sower. (Wikipedia, general species account)