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SIPHIA STROPHIATA STROPHIATA Hodgson 



Himalayan Orange-gorgeted Flycatcher 



Siphia Strophiata Hodgson, India Rev., vol. 1, 1837, pp. 631-652 (Nepal). 

 Siphia strophiata strophiata [partim], de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia, 1929, p. 545 (Doi Suthep [partim]) ; 1934, p. 213 (Doi Suthep, 



Doi Chiang Dao). — Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 



144 (Doi Suthep [partim]) ; 1936, p. US (Doi Suthep [partim)]). 

 Siphia strophiata strophiata, Chasen and Boden Kloss, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. 



Hist. Suppl., 1932, p. 239 (Doi Suthep).— Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull 172, 



193S, p. 447 (Khun Tan, Doi Aug Ka). 



This race of the orange-gorgeted flycatcher is a fairly common 

 winter visitor to the higher peaks of the provinces west of (and in- 

 cluding) the Khun Tan chain, at elevations ranging from 4,000 feet 

 (Doi Khun Tan) to 6,000 feet (Doi Ang Ka). On Doi Suthep it has 

 been recorded between November 7 (1936) and March 1 (1933). 



Except that it confines itself to the edge of the evergreen at high 

 altitudes, the present form differs little in habits from 8. p. albicilla. 



De Schauensee has noted (1929) that his specimens had the irides 

 brown ; the bill black ; the feet and toes fleshy horn. 



The adult male has the forehead and a narrow line above either 

 lore white, edged above with slaty gray, which is continued beyond 

 the eye as a supercilium; the crown and mantle olivaceous-brown, 

 posteriorly suffused with rufescent; the remiges blackish, narrowly 

 margined along the outer web with rufescent ; the upper tail coverts 

 black; the rectrices black, all except the central pair with the basal 

 half wholly or largely white; an orange-rufous or chestnut-orange 

 gorget across the lower throat, the feathers with more or less visible 

 white bases; the lores, chin, and upper throat deep slate or dull 

 black, changing to slaty gray on the sides of the head and neck and 

 on the breast below the gorget, this latter color changing to olivaceous- 

 buff along the flanks and the sides of the abdomen, to ashy white on 

 the center of the abdomen, and to white on the under tail coverts ; the 

 under wing coverts and axillaries pale orange. The adult female 

 frequently wears a plumage identical with that of the male; in true 

 female dress she has the gorget pale orange and much reduced in size ; 

 the lores, chin, throat, sides of the head and neck, and the breast 

 below the gorget uniformly slaty gray. 



SIPHIA STROPHIATA ASEMA Deignan 



Shan Orange-gorgeted Flycatcher 



Siphia strophiata ascnw Deignan, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 99, No. 18, 1940, 

 pp. 1-2 (Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai Province, North Thailand). 



Siphia strophiata strophiata [partim], de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1929, p. 545 (Doi Suthep [partim]). — Deignan, Journ. Siam 



