288 bulletin: mu;seum of comparative zoology. 



The average wing measurement of thirteen specimens is only 

 58 mm. The original description of this bird (Bull. Mus. Paris, 

 1897, 3, p. 210), gives the wing at 70. Ingram says that four of his 

 five specimens are small, but does not give measurements. 



Stachyris nigriceps Hodgson. 

 1 d', Loukouchai, 10 Feb., 1911. 



Stachyrhidopsis ruficeps (Blyth). 

 4 specimens, Mengtsze, Feb., Dec. 



MixoRNis RUBRiCAPiLLA (Tickell). 

 1 cf , Mengtsze, 18 June, 1911. 



* Myiophoneus caeruleus (Scopoli). 

 1 adult cf , Mengtsze, 3 May, 1911. 



Myiophoneus eugenei Hume. 

 8 specimens, Mengtsze, March, 1911; Loukouchai, Feb., Dec. 



* Brachypteryx cruralis senensis Rickett. 



1 adult c^, Mengtsze, 28 ^March, 1911. 



This example agrees exactly with Rickett's description of the north- 

 western Fokien bird. It probably is only a migrant in Yunnan. 



* ACTINODURA RAMSAYI YUNNANENSIS, subsp. nov. 



18 specimens, Mengtsze, May; Loukouchai, Jan., Feb., Dec. 



Ty2)e: — adult d', M. C. Z. No. 62,025, Loukouchai, 29 January, 

 1911. 



Characters. — Similar to true .1. ramsayi Walden of the Karen-nee 

 Hills, Burma, but much smaller, wing 81 to 87, tarsus 24 to 30, and 

 color of crown much deeper brown (Sudan brown to antique brown, 

 Ridgway, 1912). 



