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Yellow-rumped Flycatcher (Ficedula zanthopygia) Size 13 cm (5.25 in). This is a male with black upperparts,
 white supercilium, bold white wing patch with thin white streak on inner secondaries and bright yellow rump
diagnostic. Underparts bright yellow with white undertail coverts. Occurs in eastern Russia, Mongolia, northern
China and Korea wintering south through South-East Asia to Sumatra and Java.
It is a passage migrant and winter visitor in Malaysia from low elevations up to 400 m, south
to Singapore. Found in forests, the forest edge, scrub, plantations and wooded gardens usually
alone frequenting the lower storey. Quiet and unobtrusive.