THE BIRDS OF NORTHERN THAILAND 499 



This short-tailed little bird is probably a commoner winter visitor 

 than my field experience with it would indicate. It seems always to 

 occur on or near the ground in dense, swampy evergreen forest and 

 would perhaps never be noted at all if it did not attract attention by its 

 low chip-chip, chip-chip. 



My specimens had the irides dark brown; the maxilla dark horny 

 brown ; the mandible with the apical half dark horny brown, the basal 

 half yellowish flesh; the feet and toes yellowish white; the claws 

 white. 



The adult has the entire upperparts rich brown, suffused with rufes- 

 cent, the feathers of the crown edged slightly darker to give a scaly 

 appearance; the lores and a postocular streak to the nape brownish 

 black, edged above by an equally long and conspicuous pale buff super- 

 cilium; the feathers of the sides of the head and neck pale buff, edged 

 darker to give a scaly appearance; the underparts pale buff, almost 

 white on the chin, throat, and center of the abdomen, more brownish 

 along the flanks. 



CETTIA PALLIDIPES LAURENTEI (La Touche) 



YUNNANESE PALE-FOOTED BUSH WARBLER 



Urosphena laurentei La Touche, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 42, 1921, pp. 30-31 

 (Poutoutsing, southeastern Yunnan). 



Two males, one taken by my collectors at Chiang Saen Kao, January 

 15, 1937, and the other by me at Ban Pa Muat (near Chiang Mai) just 

 one day later, are the only examples of this species yet known from 

 Thailand. 



Soft chipping notes from the heart of a dense growth of coarse grass 

 (3 feet high) led to my discovery of the pale-footed bush warbler. 

 Since the birds, of which two were present, kept to the ground and 

 darted among the culms like small, dark mice, it was not possible to see 

 them at all from a distance of a few feet, yet they were too small to 

 shoot from a point nearer at hand and only after hours of effort was 

 I able to collect a specimen by a lucky shot to one side. 



It had the irides dark brown; the maxilla horny brown; the mandi- 

 ble fleshy white, tipped horny brown ; the feet, toes, and claws fleshy 

 white. 



The adult has the entire upperparts olivaceous-brown, darker on the 

 rather broad rectrices; the lores and a postocular streak brownish 

 black, edged above by an equally long pale brownish-buff supercilium ; 

 the sides of the head otherwise pale brownish buff; the underparts 

 white, washed with dull buffy brown or brownish buff on the sides of 

 the breast, along the flanks, and on the under tail coverts ; the under 

 wing coverts and axillaries white. 



