34 Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 



Pyrrhula erythaca Blyth* was described from the Himalayas of Sikhim, 

 whence it ranges into western Szechuan and Kansu Provinces, China. 

 The race above described seems to be widely separated, geographically, 

 from the remainder of the species and additional material may prove it to 

 be worthy of specific rank. 



Mr. Wilder has sent the following note on the habitat of this new form : 

 " It is a fine wooded hill country of some four thousand square miles, the 

 only good forest country in this province and it is being rapidly cut and 

 burned. This forest is about sixty miles east of Peking, in mountains 

 that are clothed with pine at the tops and with thin growths of oak, elm, 

 wild pear, etc., on the lower hills. The hunter [who brought this speci- 

 men] reported that the birds come every winter but he has brought none 

 this year." 



•Ibis/ 1862, 389. 



