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an anomalous dress combining characters of both male and female 

 plumage) had the irides brown ; the bill black, with the rictus horny 

 white ; the feet, toes, and claws horny brown. 



The adult male, in full plumage, has the entire upperparts slate, 

 slightly paler on the rump, but changing to black on the upper tail 

 coverts; occasionally a few scattered white feathers at the sides of 

 the posterior crown ; the remiges blackish brown, narrowly margined 

 along the outer web with dull rufous: the rectrices black, all except 

 the central pair with the basal third wholly or largely white; the 

 lores (and often the sides of the head and neck as well) blackish; 

 the chin, throat, breast, upper abdomen, under wing coverts, and 

 axillaries bright orange-rufous; the remaining underparts (includ- 

 ing the under tail coverts) pale rufous-buff, becoming white on the 

 center of the lower abdomen. The adult female (and some adult 

 males) have the entire upperparts olivaceous-brown, changing to 

 rufous-buff on the rump and upper tail coverts; the wings and tail 

 dull dark brown, the greater upper wing coverts narrowly tipped 

 with pale buffy to form a single wing bar ; a pale buffy eye ring ; the 

 underparts grayish buff, changing to white on the center of the 

 abdomen. Some of the curious aberrations of plumage shown by 

 this species are discussed by Ticehurst (Ibis, 1939, p. 754). 



Bingham's Cyornis hrevirostris (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1900, p. 

 359) seems to be a mere renaming of Siphia hodgsonii. 



SIPHIA MELANOLEUCA MELANOLEUCA (BIyth) 



Himalayan Black-and-white Flycatcher 



M[useicapula] melanoleuea Bltth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 12, 1843, p. 940 

 (Nepal, Darjiling). 



Muscicapula melanoleuea westermanni, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1929, p. 545 (Doi Suthep). — Deignan, Journ. Siaru Soe. Nat. 

 Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 144 (Doi Suthep). 



Museicapula melanoleuea melanoleuea, Chasen and Boden Kloss, Journ. Siam 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1932, p. 239 (Doi Suthep).— Deignan, Journ. Siam 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1936, p. 119 (Doi Suthep). — de Schauensee, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, p. 214 (Doi Suthep, Doi Chiang Dao).— 

 Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 459 (Doi Hua Mot, Doi Langka).— 

 Green way, Bull. Mus. Cornp. Zool., 1940, p. 182 (Doi Ang Ka). 



The little pied flycatcher is a common permanent resident on those 

 mountains of the Thanon Thong Chai and Khun Tan ranges that 

 rise to elevations in excess of 4,500 feet; on Doi Suthep it occurred 

 from that altitude to the summit (5,500 feet). A unique specimen 

 from the Chiang Mai plain, November 21, 1936, must be considered 

 merely a wanderer. 



This delightful bird, which is conspicuous in the open hill-forest 

 and at clearings in the evergreen, keeps to the lower branches, where 



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