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Genus MELOPIIUS Swainson 



Melophus lathami (J. E. Gray) 



Emheriza Lathami J. E. Gray, Zoological Miscellany, No. 1, 



1831, p. 2 ("China and India"; type specimen from Canton, 



Kwangtung Province, China, fide Ticehurst, Bull. Brit. Orn. 



Club, vol. 53, 1932, p. 16). 



Range: A visitor from the North, reported on migration or in 



winter from the northern plateau (Chiang Rai, Phayao, Chiang M ai 



Uttaradit) . 



