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was probably procured somewhere on the coast where his expedition 

 touched and not from the interior. 



Tlie National Museum possesses two males and three females from 

 Kiangyin, near the mouth of the Yang-tze-kiang, males taken in February 

 and the females in December. They are all uniformly dark and so differ- 

 ent from the Hupeh specimens that no ornithologist upon comparison 

 would think of uniting them. The Hupeh male in color is very much 

 like E. m. migratoria but is a little lighter and has a heavier bill. The 

 male of E. m. melanura has the chest mouse gray while in E. m. soiverbyi 

 it is a pale mouse gray and less extensive in area, occurring in a semi- 

 ring below the black of the throat, the rest of the chest being washed 

 with vinaceous buff. 



The three forms measure as follows : 



