BANGS AND PHILLIPS: BIRDS FROM YUNNAN. 275 



Cerchneis tinnunculus japonicus (Teminiiick & Schlegel). 

 1 d' and 1 9 , Mengtsze, 27 Oct., 20 Nov. 



Cerchneis tinnunculus saturata Blyth. 



6 specimens, Mengtsze, 11 March, 8 April, 20 July, 16 Oct., 27 Oct., 

 25 Nov. 



These examples are extreme of this large, very dark form, while the 

 two specimens of C. t. japonicus are typical of that race. The birds 

 collected in Szechwan and Hupeh by Mr. W. R. Zappey and referred 

 to saturata by Thayer and Bangs, prove in the light of this material, 

 to be almost exactly intermediate between saturata andjajyonicus. 



Strigidae. 



*Otus malayana (Hay). ' 



1 o^ and 1 9, adults, Mengtsze, 12 Oct., 16 Oct., 1910. 



The cf is in the brown phase and the 9 in the grey, d" wing, 85; 

 9 wing, 93. These birds unquestionably are referable to this 

 species. 



Ingram recorded Ottis lempiji erythrocamj^e (Swinhoe) from Mengtsze, 

 but our collection from the same place contained no Scops owl belong- 

 ing to that group of the genus. 



* Nixox scutulata burmanica Hume. 



2 adults, 1 9 , one with sex undetermined, Mengtsze, 29 July, 16 

 Oct., 1910. 



No Ninox was listed from Yunnan by Ingram, but a specimen from 

 Quaylom, Yunnan, taken by Anderson had been recorded by Sharpe 

 (Cat. birds Brit, mus., 2, p. 162). 



Our two skins appear to belong to this form, which even Hartert 

 (Vogel Palaark. fauna) says he does not know very well. They are 

 much larger than two Malacca trade skins of A^. scutulata malaccensis 

 (Eyton) in M. C. Z. Compared with several specimens of N. scutu- 

 lata scutulata (Raffles) from the Riu Kiu Islands and the Philippines 

 the Yunnan birds while of the same size, are of a different shade of 

 brown above and have very greyish heads. They are also somewhat 



