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brown; the rump and upper tail coverts pale gray; the wings black, 

 with a small but conspicuous white patch at the center of the pri- 

 maries ; the central pair of rectrices ashy gray with a broad black tip, 

 the next outer pair with only the basal half ashy gray, the remaining 

 pairs usually wholly black ; the sides of the head and the throat deep 

 brownish, gradually changing to brownish ashy on the breast and to 

 pale gray on the abdomen ; the under tail coverts rufous. 



I have been unable to examine topotypes of this form and our birds 

 are possibly intermediate between assimilU and himalayensis. 



CRYPSIRINA FORMOSAE HIMALAYENSIS (Blyth) 



East Himalayan Gray Tree Pee 



Dendrocitta himalayensis Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 45 (Himalayas; type locality re- 

 stricted to Sikkim, by Ticeburst, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 46, 1925, p. 22). 



A solitary individual of the gray tree pie, found perched upon a low 

 branch above a trail and giving every indication of being lost, was 

 taken on Doi Suthep at 3,300 feet, March 23, 1937, and was later iden- 

 tified by me at the British Museum as an example of the present race. 



Although the bird had the testes enlarged, it must nevertheless be 

 considered merely a straggler, perhaps from no great distance, since 

 it is probable that the population of Doi Pha Horn Pok are also of the 

 more northern form, although specimens do not exist to prove this. 



It had the irides garnet ; the bill black ; the feet and toes brownish 

 black; the claws black. 



From other Thai specimens, this skin differs in its generally greater 

 proportions; the greater extent of black on the head (covering the 

 forecrown as far as the posterior corner of the eye) ; its larger white 

 wing patch; the blackish color of the throat; the less sullied, more 

 uniform, gray of the underparts. 



CRYPSIRINA TEMIA (Daudin) 



Bronzed Spatulate-tailed Tree Pie 



Corvus temia Daudin, Traite d'ornithologie, vol. 2, 1800, p. 244 (Java). 

 Crypsirhina varians, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1913, p. 19 



(Ban Huai Horn, Pbrae) ; 1916, p. 18 (Khun Tan, Tba Chomphu) ; Journ. 



Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1"915, p. 164 (listed) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 449 ("Throughout 



the whole country"). — de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1928, p. 556 (Chiang Mai). 

 Crypsirhina temia, de Schauensee, Proc. Acacl. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 528 



(Chiang Mai, Chiang Saen). 

 Crypsirina temia, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 134 



(Chiang Mai) ; 1936, p. 103 (Chiang Mai). — de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, p. 179 (Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai).— Riley, U. S. Nat. 



Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 307 (Phrae, Ban Nam Khian).— Greenway, Bull. Mus. 



Comp. Zool., 1940, p. 168 (Chiang Mai). 



