Rare flycatcher

The taman is most privileged to receive this rare visitor, the Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher.  This a bird that is on transit to the south and does not remain in any area for more than a couple of days, thus to sight it is rare.  It's known as a passage migrant through the Peninsular.
A report went as follows:

“They breed in the mountainous broadleaved forests of southern and central China (ie. Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guizhou). Brown-chested Jungle Flycatchers head south from August onwards, briefly passing through northern Vietnam. By mid-September, they would have reached Central Thailand, as confirmed by regular sightings around Bangkok. Thus sightings in Peninsula to Singapore are sighted from the last few days of September to early November and there are very few records of birds staying through winter.  

Their last stop is supposedly in Sumatera. Some like this one may stop and stay in Johor and/or cross the causeway or Malacca Straits.”

This rare visitor has certainly made it into the list of bird species sighted in the taman, a proud no 97, and I hope I will not stop counting.
5/2019