464 BULLETIN 18 6, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 TERPSIPHONE PARADISI INDOCHINENSIS (Salomonsen) 



Indo-Chinese Paradise Flycatcher 



Tchitrea afflnis indochinensis Salomonsen, Ibis, 1933, pp. 734-736 (Angkor, Cam- 

 bodia). 



Terpsiphone afflnis, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1916, p. 81 

 (Khun Tan). 



Tchitrea paradisi afflnis [partim], Gyldenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 574 ("Throughout 

 the whole country" ) . 



Tchitrea paradisi, Deignan, Journ. Siarti Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 145 (Doi 

 Suthep). 



Tchitrea paradisi indochinensis, Deignan, Journ. Siam. Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 

 1936, p. 120 (Doi Suthep). 



The breeding race of the paradise flycatcher is a very local and 

 rather uncommon seasonal visitor to our provinces: Gyldenstolpe col- 

 lected four specimens at Khun Tan between May 6 and September 22, 

 1914; I found it in small numbers between February 13 (1936) and 

 August 23 (1930) on Doi Suthep, 2,700 to 3,500 feet (a bird of the 

 year taken November 21, 1936, is the only exceptional record) ; an ex- 

 ample from Ban Huai Som, March 28, 1937, is the sole proof of its 

 occurrence east of the Khun Tan chain. 



This is a bird of moist and fairly dense evergreen; judged from 

 my experience, it is most likely to be observed where, along some forest 

 stream, the shrubs and trees are bound together by a profusion of 

 vines. It is intolerant of intrusion and soon attracts attention to it- 

 self by harsh, scolding notes, not unlike those of the black-naped 

 flycatcher. 



A male from Doi Suthep, February 29, had the gonads enlarged ; 

 the one from Ban Huai Som, March 28, had them greatly enlarged. 

 It is interesting to note that, of the nine northern Thai specimens 

 known to me, no less than eight are males. 



An example from Doi Suthep, July 25, is in postnuptial molt. 



An adult female had the irides brown ; the eye ring smalt blue ; the 

 maxilla with the basal half horny black, the tip black, the edges of 

 the commissure horny, the rest (including the basal half of the cul- 

 men) smalt blue; the mandible blackish brown with the edges of the 

 commissure horny; the feet and toes smalt blue; the claws horny 

 brown. Birds of the year have the entire bill, at least in the dried 

 skin, horn color. 



The adult male has the erectile feathers of the crown glossy blue- 

 black ; the nape deep ashy gray ; the remaining upperparts bright ru- 

 fous; the rectrices graduated and the central pair enormously elon- 

 gated ; the lores, sides of the head, chin, throat, and upper breast deep 

 ashy gray (like the nape), changing on the lower breast to the pure 

 white of the abdomen ; the under tail coverts rufous-buff. The adult 

 female and the younger male differ from the adult male only in the 

 lack of the elongated central tail feathers. 



