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the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, where it was No. 1963 

 of the Menage Collection. 



Genus MUSCICAPA Brisson 



Butalis pallens Stejneger 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 10: 144, July 2, 1887. 

 =Muscicapa griseisticta (Swinhoe). See Hartert, Vogel der palaarkti- 



schen Fauna 1 (4) : 478, 1907. 

 92535. Adult female. Bering Island, Commander Islands, southwestern 

 Bering Sea. June 17, 1883. Collected by Leonhard H. Stejneger. 

 Original number 2180. 

 Hartert {loc. cit.) comments on Muscicapa griseisticta (Swinhoe) as fol- 

 lows: "Im Friihjahr verbleicht das Gefieder der Oberseite bedeutend. Die 

 Breite der Streifen an der Unterseite variiert etwas. Stejneger benannte 

 einen am 17. Juni auf der Bering Insel erlegten 'straggler' dessen Geschlecht 

 nicht festgestellt wurde bedingungsweise pallens. Es diirfte sich um das 

 abgetragene Sommerkleid handeln." 



Stejneger saw but two skins of true griseisticta, but I have compared his 

 type with 26 specimens, some of them collected late in the spring; not one 

 of them approximates pallens in the paleness of the upper parts or the nar- 

 rowness of the streaks of the under parts. In the circumstances, one must 

 accept the possibility that pallens is a valid race, of which the breeding 

 ground is still unknown. 

 Siphia strophiata asema Deignan 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 99 (18) : 1, Dec. 11, 1940. 

 =Muscicapa strophiata strophiata (Hodgson), fide Deignan (ms.). 

 336545. Adult female. Doi Suthep (lat. 18°50' N., long. 98°55' E.), at 

 elev. 5,500 feet, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. Nov. 7, 1936. Col- 

 lected by Herbert G. Deignan. Original number 1728. 

 No second specimen of "Siphia strophiata asema" has come to light, and it 

 seems best to consider this putative form a mere variant of Muscicapa 

 strophiata strophiata. "Siphia rufigularis" Scully, 1879, from Nepal, is ap- 

 parently a very similar variant of the same species; whereas Scully's bird 

 had the "chin, throat, and upper breast bright orange rufous," mine has 

 these parts a very dull orange rufous. 

 Anthipes solitaria euroa Riley 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 53 (11): 48, Apr. 19, 1940. 

 =Muscicapa solitaris submoniliger (Hume)?, fide Deignan (ms.). 

 359196. Adult (sex not indicated, not male). Dran (elev. 3,000 feet), 

 Phanrang Province, southern Annam. July 1939. Collected by 

 Joseph F. C. Rock. Original number 497. 

 Musicicapula montigena Mearns 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 18 (1) : 8, Jan. 20, 1905. 

 =Muscicapa hyperythra montigena (Mearns). See Mayr, in Delacour 

 and Mayr, Birds of the Philippines, p. 210, 1946. 



