Vol. XXVI, pp. 95-96 May 3, 1913 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NEW WARBLER FROM WESTERN CHINA. 



BY OUTRAM BANGS. 



When Thayer and I reported upon the birds collected by 

 W. R. Zappey in China (Memoir of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, Vol. XL, No. 4, August, 1912), we had no specimens 

 from elsewhere of Reguloides pulcher (Blyth) with which to 

 compare the three examples taken during the breeding season 

 at high elevations in western Szechwan, and therefore referred 

 them to that bird without comment. Western China was a 

 wholly new region for the species and I was not surprised when 

 later I discovered two skins from Sikkim in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology to find them very different from the 

 Chinese bird, which may be known as — 



Reguloides pulcher vegetus subsp. nov. 



Type, No. 52503 M. C. Z., adult $, western Szechwan, Yachiakun. 

 Collected July 14, 1908, by W. R. Zappey at 12,500 feet altitude. 



Characters. —Much paler and duller in color throughout than is true 

 R. pulcher (Blyth) of the Himalayas. Upper parts much duller olive- 

 green; superciliary stripe much paler — about straw yellow ; rump patch 

 primrose yellow, instead of olive-yellow; underparts much paler, being 

 dull greyish straw-yellow instead of greenish maize yellow. 



Measurements. 



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