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My examples had the irides dark brown; the bill, feet, toes, and 

 claws black. 



The adult male has the entire head and throat, the upper back, 

 scapulars and upper wing coverts ashy gray; the lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail coverts scarlet-orange; the central pair of rectrices 

 black, the remaining pairs with an outwardly increasing amount of 

 creamy orange; the wing quills black, the inner primaries with a 

 creamy-orange patch near the base, the secondaries with a similar 

 patch, which is red-orange ; the underparts, below the throat, scarlet- 

 orange, gradually changing to orange-suffused yellow on the vent 

 and under tail coverts; the under wing coverts yellow. The adult 

 female is similar but has the gray of the upperparts much paler ; the 

 rump patch more orange less scarlet ; the light wing markings yellow 

 (on the secondaries suffused with orange) ; the underparts yellow, 

 fading to grayish on the breast and almost white on the throat. My 

 material is insufficient to describe the plumages of immature birds. 



HEMIPUS PICATUS CAPITALIS (McClelland) 



Brown-backed Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike 



Muscicapaf capitalis McClelland, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 7, 1839 [=1840], 



p. 157 (Assam). , 



Hemipus picatus, db Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1928, 



p. 571 (Doi Suthep). 

 Hemipus picatus capitalis, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1929, p. 550 (Chiang Saen, Doi Suthep). — Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. 



Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 146 (Doi Suthep). — Chasen and Boden Kloss, Journ. 



Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1932, p. 246 (Doi Suthep).— Gbeenway, Bull. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., 1940, p. 186 ("Mae Wan River near Mt. Saket," Doi Ang 



Ka, Doi Nang Kaeo ) . 

 Hemipus picatus picatus, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, 



p. 146 (Doi Suthep). 

 Hemipus picatus [partim], de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1934, p. 222 (Doi Suthep, Doi Chiang Dao).— Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 



172, 1938, p. 483 (Doi Langka, Doi Hua Mot). 

 Hemipus picatus subsp., Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1936, p. 123 



(Doi Suthep). 



Despite published assertions (based upon sight records) to the 

 contrary, study of long series of adult males from Thailand has 

 shown that there is no geographical overlap in the distributions of 

 picatus and capitalis and that the two must be considered valid sub- 

 species. Ticehurst has stated (Ibis, 1940, p. 412) that "capitalis is 

 found from the Assam Hills, Manipur, Chindwin, Kachin Hills, 

 Shwebo, Maymyo, and Shan States." In Thailand its known range 

 is restricted to a narrow strip along the Chiang Rai-Shan States 

 border from Chiang Saen Kao to Doi Pha Horn Pok and from there 

 south through the hills of Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son Provinces 



