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4. Garrulus bispecularis harringtoni Rippon. 



Garmlus harringtoni Rippon, BtiU. B.O. Club, xv. p. 97 (1905 — Mt. Victoria, South Chin Hills). 



Colour richer than that of G. b. bispecularis, throat distinctly whitish, also 

 sides of head above the black malar stripe rather paler. Uj)per- and underside, 

 except the whitish throat, as in G. b. interstinctus. On the crown some faint 

 black lines. 



Wing, 170-178 mm. 



Hab. : Mt. Victoria in the southern Chin Hills. Half a dozen in the British 

 Museum. 



5. Garrulus bispecularis rufescens Rchw. 



Garrulus rujescens Reichenow, Orn. Monatsher. 1897- p. 123 (North Yunnan). 



Described as similar to G. bispecularis, but throat nearly pure white, sharply 

 in contrast with the red-brown jugulum, upperside deeper in colour. I am 

 convinced that 5 specimens from the " Yang-tse big bend " in North Yunnan, 

 9-10,000 feet high, collected by Colonel Rippon, belong to this form. They 

 are very much like harringtoni, but the forehead is darker, upperside darker, 

 back more greyish, throat whitish in 2 out of the 5. These birds scarcely differ 

 from sinensis, except that in 2 of 5 specimens the throat is more whitish 

 than in most sinensis and the back is generally more greyish. It is therefore 

 somewhat doubtful, but most probable that the specimens in the British 

 Museum differ slightly from sinensis, and I do not think we can doubt that 

 they are referable to rufescens. Their wings are as long as those of sinensis. 

 Reichenow gave no measurements. Wing, 183-197 mm. 



Hab. : North Yunnan. 



6. Garrulus bispecularis sinensis Swinh. 



Garrulus sinensis Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1863. p. 304 (nomen nudum) ; id. op. cit. 1871. 

 p. 381 (" South China, westwards to Szechuen." Meagre diagnosis added). 



Similar to bispecularis, but generally larger in all dimensions, nasal bristles 

 with more distinct black tips (in 1 out of 50 absent), above the bill some 

 blackish spots and bristles. 



Wing, 177 (?) — 197 (cj) mm. Iris described by Swinhoe as "pearly with a 

 deep purple outer edge." 



Hab. : Southern China. Exact distribution not certain, but certainly to 

 Yang-tse-kiang, and if a northern race is not separable, to the Tsin-ling 

 Mountains. 



Our two Tsin-ling specimens are darker above and below than specimens 

 from the Yang-tse-kiang and Foochow, but Commander Lynes obtained on 

 the Yang-tse-kiang also a similarly dark specimen, in February. In the British 

 Museum are lighter and darker specimens from various localities. 



7. Garrulus bispecularis pekingensis Rchw. 



Garrulus bispecularis pekingensis Reichenow, Journ. /. Orn. 1905. p. 425 (Peking). 



Said to differ from sinensis by much brighter red-brown head, from 

 bispecularis and rufescens by duller, greyer back. 



Apparently one specimen, said to be from Peking, received by Mollendorff. 



