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No one has ever recorded a white-phased paradise flycatcher from 

 any part of our area; if such be seen, especially in the more eastern 

 provinces, it is likely to be an example of the Chinese race. 



TERPSIPHONE PARADISI INCEI (Gould) 



Chinese Paradise Flycatcher 



Muscipeta Incei Gould, The birds of Asia, vol. 2, pt. 4, Nov. 1852, pi. 19 and text 



("Neighbourhood of Shanghai in China"). 

 Terpsiphone affinis, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 169 



(listed). 

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



the whole country"). 

 Terpsiphone incei incei, Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 466 (Nan, Ban 



Nam Khian). 



The Chinese paradise flycatcher is probably a regular and not un- 

 common bird of passage through the provinces east of the Khun Tan 

 range ; the definite records are : a female and a male taken by Eisen- 

 hofer at Pha Hing, April 29 and May 5, 1912 (specimens listed by 

 Gyldenstolpe and now deposited in Stockholm) ; two males collected 

 by Smith in Nan Province, April 15 and 19, 1930; a male shot by me at 

 Ban Nam Puat (French Enclave), April 26, 1936, and a young female 

 from Ban Sa-iap (Phrae Province), September 9, 1936. 



The adult male, in the white phase, has the whole head and neck 

 (including the throat) glossy blue-black; the rest of the plumage 

 white, all the feathers of the upperparts with more or less distinct 

 black shaft streaks and the rectrices with narrow black margins as 

 well. The adult male in the brown phase differs from that of indo- 

 chinensis in having the entire head and neck (including the nape and 

 throat) glossy blue-black; the upperparts chestnut-rufous, distinctly 

 glossed with violet on the mantle ; the gray of the breast continued over 

 the greater part of the abdomen, with resultant restriction of the area 

 of pure white. The adult female resembles the brown male but has 

 the chin and throat deep gray, slightly glossed with steel blue, and 

 lacks the elongated central rectrices. 



T. p. indochinensis of either sex has a decidedly larger and heavier 

 bill than incei; in the rare event of the occurrence of indochinensis 

 in a white phase, it could probably be distinguished from the Chinese 

 bird only by comparison of bills. 



Family SYLVIIDAE 



SEICERCUS BURKII TEPHROCEPHALA (Anderson) 



Burmese Golden-spectacled Flycatcher Warbler 



Culicipeta tephrocephalus Anderson, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871, p. 213 (Bhamo, 



Upper Burma). 

 Cryptolopha ourkii tephrocephalus, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. 



Handl., 1913, p. 30 (Khao Phlung) ; 1916, p. 82 (Khun Tan). 



