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forest tracks or at the edge of tiny streams. In such places it runs 

 about the cleared ground and leaps into the air after insects in the 

 manner of the preceding species, constantly wagging the tail from 

 side to side ; occasionally it takes refuge on a bough above the trail. 



A specimen from Chiang Mai, March 19, is undergoing prenuptial 

 molt. 



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

 the mandible flesh, with the apical half light horn brown ; the feet and 

 toes fleshy brown (the toes darker) ; the claws horny brown. 



The present form has the upperparts grayish olive, becoming black- 

 ish on the upper tail coverts ; the wings black, crossed by three con- 

 spicuous, equidistant creamy- white bands; the outermost pair of 

 rectrices almost wholly white, the next pair with the basal half black 

 and the apical half white, the following three pairs black, the shorter 

 central pair colored like the mantle ; a conspicuous supercilium creamy 

 white; the lores, ear coverts, and sides of the lower throat grayish 

 olive ; the underparts creamy white, the upper breast crossed by a bold 

 black gorget, the lower breast by a dull black gorget (often interrupted 

 in the middle), the two usually connected by a short black central 

 streak. Worn examples tend to be grayer above and whiter below. 



ANTHUS HODGSONI HODGSONI Richmond 



Siberian Olive-backed Tree Pipit 



Anthus hodgsoni Richmond, in Blackwelder, Report on Zoology, Carnegie Inst. 



Washington Publ. No. 54, Research in China, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1907, p. 493. New 



name for A [nthus] maculatus "Hodgson" Jerdon 1864 (". . . all India . . . 



at Calcutta, and elsewhere in Bengal ..."), not Motacilla maculata Grnelin, 



1789. 

 Anthus trivialis maculatus, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet-Akad. Handl., 



1913, p. 42 (Den Chai) ; Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 171 (listed). 

 Anthus maculatus, Gyldenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 461 ("Throughout the country"). 

 Anthus trivialis hodgsoni, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1928, p. 560 (Chiang Mai, Doi Suthep). 



Anthus trivialis yunnatiensis, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1929, p. 562 (Doi Suthep, Chiang Rai). 



Anthus hodgsoni, Chasen and Boden Kloss, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 

 1932, p. 248 (Doi Suthep).— Relet, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 475 

 (Chiang Mai, Doi Langka, Khun Tan, Mae Hong Son, Muang Pai). 



Anthus hodgsoni yunnanensis, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, 

 p. 154 (Chiang Mai, Doi Suthep) ; 1936, p. 121 (Chiang Mai, Doi Suthep).— 

 de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, p. 238 (Chiang Mai, 

 Doi Chiang Dao, Chiang Saen). 



The tree pipit is a very common, even abundant, winter visitor to 

 every part of northern Thailand, ranging, wherever it finds a suit- 

 able environment, from the plains to the summits of the mountains ; 

 in the vicinity of Chiang Mai it was absent only from the dry, decid- 



