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is evidently variable, as the male of Kuroda's bird had it on the two middle 

 pairs, his female and our bird on the central pair only. Kuroda's birds were 

 both captured together on July 16th, 1909, our specimen on December 17th, 

 while the adult male (type) and three adult females were caught on December 4th. 

 I fear, however, that there may be an error about the dates. We believe the 

 male of December 17th to be the young of owstoni for the following reasons : 

 It only differs from the adult females in the want of the sharply defined black 

 frontal line, the less slaty-grey but brownish crown with blackish dusky centres 

 to the feathers, the white line on the middle pair of tail-feathers, and more white 

 abdomen ; on the back some obviously juvenile feathers are seen ; the bird is 

 moulting, the lateral rectrices much worn ; on one of our adult females the 

 forehead is also distinctly spotted. Should Kuroda's view be correct, that 

 there are two species of this Bullfinch on Formosa, then his uchidai would doubt- 

 less be a subspecies of nipalensis, our owstoni a separate species — but from our 

 present knowledge I cannot take this view and consider uchidai a synonym 

 of owstoni. 



215. Pyrrhula waterstiadti Hart. = Pyrrhula nipalensis waterstradti. 



PyrrhtUa waterstradti Hartert, Bvll. B.O. Club, xii. p. 69 (1902 — Gunong Tahan, Eaatem Malay 

 Peninsula). 



Type: ^ ad., Mount (Gunong) Tahan. John Waterstradt leg. 



I now consider waterstradti also to be a subspecies of P. nipalensis, the only 

 important differences from the latter being the much more extended white on 

 the sides of the head, and the much more faintly spotted forehead and crown. 

 Mr. Herbert C. Robinson's Malay hunters collected this bird in several places of 

 Selangor, chiefly on Mount (Gunong) Meng Kuang Lebah, 4,800 feet high, and 

 Mt. Ulu Kah, between 4,700 and 5,800 feet. 



f 216. Emberiza Alleonis Vian = Emberiza pallasi. 



Emberiza Alleonis Vian, Bev. et Mag. Zool. 1869. pp. 97. 103 (Dauria), 



Type of ? : ?, Dauria 1868. From Madame Verdey. 



This specimen is marked " Type " on the label under the stand in the Riocour 

 Collection (cf. I.e. p. 98). The type of the male, which was also in the Riocour 

 Collection, appears to be lost. It is not in the Tring Museum, where the greater 

 part of the Riocour Collection seems to be now. It was bought from Boucard 

 in 1890, after Sharpe had selected 148 specimens, among which were a number 

 of types, and it is not among the latter. (Cf. Sharpe, History Coll. Nat. Hist. 

 Brit. Mvs. p. 315.) 



217. Emberiza schoeniclus pallidior Hart. = Emberiza schoeniclus pallidior. 



Emberiza schoeniclus pallidior Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 197 (1904— Turkestan, Kashgar, Lob- 

 Nor, middle Yang-tse-kiang, Omsk, Baikal). 



Type : <J,near Aiderli, Turkestan, 11. xi. 1899 (Russian date). N. Zarudny 

 leg. No. 1298. 



218. Emberiza pynbuloides reiseri Hart. = Emberiza pyrrhvloides reiseri. 

 Emberiza pyrrhuloides reiseri Hart«rt, Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 199 (1904 — Thessaly). 



Type : 3, Lamia, 4.xii. 1901. No. 10,009. 

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