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MEGALURUS PALUSTRIS ANDREWSI Bangs 



Continental Striated Marsh Warbler 



Megalurus palustris andrewsi Bangs, Bull. Anier. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 44, 1921, 



pp. 592-593 (Meng-ting, Yunnan-Burma border). 

 Megalurus palustris, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 149 



(Chiang Mai) ; 1936, p. 115 (Chiang Mai). 



This large and unmistakable grass warbler, which is resident in 

 districts both north and south of us, has been found solely as a rare 

 and irregular cold-weather visitor to the Chiang Mai plain, between 

 October 28 (1936) and February 17 (1931). 



I have seen it only in the immediate vicinity of the marshes, where 

 it may be observed flying for long distances above the reeds, with tail 

 violently pumped, or perched at the top of some isolated bush or tree. 

 Its song, which I have heard in April in the State of Kengtung, is a 

 notable performance of loud, chattery, bubbling notes, rendered in 

 the air as the bird glides from an altitude of as much as 40 feet back 

 down to a favored arboreal perch. 



A female had the irides light brown ; the maxilla dark horny brown ; 

 the mandible horny flesh; the feet and toes fleshy horn; the soles 

 yellowish; the claws horn. 



The species has the upperparts buffy, suffused (especially on the 

 crown and nape) with rufous, the feathers with black central streaks 

 which are narrow on the crown, nape, and upper tail coverts, broad 

 on the back, scapulars, upper wing coverts, and inner secondaries, 

 virtually absent on the rump; the strongly graduated and sharply 

 pointed rectrices buffy brown with dark brown shafts; an indistinct 

 whitish supercilium ; the underparts brownish white, more buffy along 

 the flanks and on the under tail coverts, albescent on the throat and 

 center of the abdomen, the feathers of the breast, flanks, and under 

 tail coverts with narrow blackish-brown shaft streaks. 



ORTHOTOMUS SUTORIUS INEXPECTATUS La Touche 



Indo-Chinese Long-tailed Tailorbird 



Orthotomus sutorius inexpectatus La Touche, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 43, 1922, 



p. 42 (Mengtz, southeastern Yunnan). 

 Sutoria sutoria, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. SVenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1916, p. 44 



(Khun Tan, Doi Pha Sakaeng). 

 Sutoria, sutoria phyllorrapheus, Gyldenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 471 ("Throughout 



Siam"). 

 Sutoria sutoria patia, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1928, 



p. 562 (Chiang Mai). 

 Orthotomus suto?'ius patia, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1929, p. 554 (Doi Suthep). — Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, 



p. 148 (Chiang Mai, Doi Suthep) ; 1936, p. 115 (Chiang Mai, Doi Suthep). 



