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The adult male differs from that of capitalis only in having the 

 scapulars, back, and rump glossy green-black instead of dull brown. 

 The adult female and the juvenile are indistinguishable from those 

 of capitalis. 



TEPHRODORNIS PONDICERIANA THAI Boden Kloss and Chawn 



Indo-Chinese White-tailed Wood-shrike 



Tephrodornis pondicerianus thai Boden Kloss and Chasen, Bull. Brit. Orn. 



Club, vol. 46, 1925, p. 58 (Tha Chang Tai, near Rahaeng, West Thailand). 

 Tephrodornis pondicerianus, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 



1913, p. 32 (Phrae) ; 1916, p. 42 (Khun Tan) ; Journ. Nat Hist. Soc. Siam, 



1915, p. 168 (listed) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 470 (Khun Tan, Phrae). 

 Tephrodornis pondiceriana thai, Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 483 



(Mae Khan, Mae Sariang, foot of Doi Pata). 



The lesser wood-shrike, while rather local, has been collected at 

 numerous localities in Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, Lampang, and 

 Phrae Provinces and may confidently be expected to occur also in 

 Nan Province. 



The present species is found at feeble elevations in parklike, 

 deciduous forest, just such as is inhabited by Dryobates h. hyper- 

 ythrus (and, in fact, my two specimens of that woodpecker were 

 taken within sight of flocks of the wood-shrike). The small, loose 

 bands move quietly from tree to tree, diligently searching for their 

 insect food in the crevices of bark and beneath the leaves, exactly in 

 the manner of so many vireos. 



Birds in post Juvenal molt were collected, June 20, at Nong Phung 

 (about 46 km. north of Chiang Mai) ; adults in postnuptial molt at 

 various places, between June 20 and September 28. 



Gyldenstolpe notes that his examples had the irides brown ; the bill 

 black ; the feet and toes plumbeous. 



Adults have the lores, cheeks, and ear coverts blackish brown; a 

 white supercilium, which broadens posteriorly ; the forehead, crown, 

 visible portions of wings, back, and rump ashy gray, the feathers of 

 the last tipped with white to form a band ; the upper tail coverts black ; 

 the central pair of rectrices gray-brown, the next three pairs almost 

 wholly blackish brown, the two outermost pairs almost wholly white ; 

 the entire underparts white, suffused with ashy gray on the breast. 



TEPHRODORNIS GULARIS VERNAYI Kinnear 



Thai Brown-tailed Wood-shrike 



Tephrodornis pelvicus verneyi [sic] Kinnear, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 44, 



1924, pp. 101-102 (Urn Phang, West Thailand). 

 Tephrodornis pelvicus, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1913, 



p. 32 (Den Chai) ; 1916, p. 42 (Khun Tan, Pha Hing, Doi Pha Sakaeng) ; 



Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 168 (listed) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 470 



("Throughout northern Siam"). 



