290 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



* Pterythius melanotis Hodgson. 

 1 & and 1 9 , Loukouchai, Feb. 



Mesia argentauris Hodgson. 

 1 c?, Loukouchai, 6 Feb. 



* MiNLA jERDONi J. Verreaux. 



8 specimens, adults of both sexes, Mengtsze, Jan., Feb., Sept. 

 Ingram refers the specimens examined by himself, from western 

 Yunnan to Minla igneitinda Hodgson. Our skins, however, all 

 winter and autumn killed, belong to the Chinese form having olive 

 backs, and wholly bright yellow underparts and under wing coverts, 

 the sides flecked with olive-green. 



Probably the species is a winter visitor only to our region. 



* Paradoxornis guttaticollis David. 

 3 males, Mengtsze; Loukouchai, Feb., March, Dec. 



* Suthora webbiana webbiana Graj'. 



3 specimens, both sexes, Loukouchai, Jan., Feb., 191 L 

 On geographical grounds one might expect these skins to be refer- 

 able to S. w. suffusa Swinhoe. Such, however, is clearly not the case. 

 The crown and edges of the primaries in all three examples is rich 

 vinaceous rufous and the back is of the shade peculiar to true webbiana 

 and different from the shade shown in siiffusa. 



All three were taken in winter and the collection contains no summer 

 nor spring examples; it is therefore, we think, safe to assume that they 

 were merely winter stragglers of the northern form. The specimens 

 afford the following measurements in mm. 



