Photo:Anabel Harries Dusky Flycatcher:

Muscicapa adusta

Rather plump and short-tailed; some races are greyer above; the breast is smudgy contrasting with the pale throat.

M. adusta has marked intrapopulation (i.e. within the races) and clinal variability (i.e. across the range).

M.adusta fuelleborni: (in Tanazania - east and north to Nguru and Mahari mountains) like nominate adusta but upperparts and breast a cooler grey.

M.a.pumila: (in Tanzania - Kitumbeine and north west highlands) upperparts brownish like adusta; NB: plumage darkens with altitude.

M.a.murina (in Tanazania - northern montane areas) upperparts like fuelleborni, underparts browner, slightly olivaceous.

Ashy Flycatcher:

Muscicapa caerulescens cinereola

Larger and blue-grey rather than brown, whitish below with a well-marked face which is marked by a black line through the eye bordered by white lines. Note the broken white orbital ring, black lores beneath white supra-loral line, and indistinct short dark moustachial streak.

I have watched Dusky Flycatchers, mostly in the Crater Highlands and occasionally here on Mount Meru which looked very similar in their cold grey tone to the plumage of this bird – an almost bluish grey. That is why it appears to me to be a Dusky Flycatcher, albeit distinctly greyish.