ART. 7 BIRDS FROM YUNNAN AND SZECHWAN, CHINA RILEY 21 



rated by the black shaft. The next stage of the male is not repre- 

 sented, but it is carried on in one of the immature females where 

 the white markings above and below are only a little less numerous 

 than in the adult and the barring on the outer tail feathers with the 

 white bars farther apart than in the adult and interrupted prox- 

 imally ; the pileum is without any white markings. Another female 

 is acquiring white spots on the forehead. 



66. HYPOPICUS HYPERYTHRUS HYPERYTHRUS (Vigors) 



Picus liyperythrus Vigoks, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1831, p. 23 (Himalayan 

 Mountains). 



Four males and three females, southwest Szechwan (forests of 

 Djago, Muli, 10,000-12,000 feet, June and April; forests of Baude- 

 Shaj^a, 12,500-13,000 feet, northeast of Muli, July; Noon forests, 

 10,500 feet, east of Muli, August ; Mount Gibboh, 13,000 feet, Muli, 

 August; Chiichulongba, 13,000-14,000 feet, no date). 



The above si3ecimens are darker and brighter than the north China 

 form, Hypopicus hyperythtms suhruflnus. Two of the above speci- 

 mens (male and female) are birds of the year with the underparts 

 barred with black. The female taken in June has the throat and all 

 the underparts barred; the male taken in August has the barring 

 below much reduced and confined mostly to the chest and sides. One 

 of the males in apparently adult plumage (Mount Gibboh, August) 

 has the lower as well as the upper mandible black as in the immature 

 specimens ; it may be a bird of the year also. 



67. DRYOBATES MAJOR STRESEMANNI Rensch 



Dryohates major stresemanni Rensch, Abh. Ber. Mus. Tierk. Volkerk. Dresden, 

 vol. 16, no. 2, p. 38, 1924 (Tsalila, Szechwan). 



One female, Yungning Mountains, 12,000-13,000 feet, Yunnan, 

 November-December ; three males and two females, southwest Szech- 

 wan (Muli Mountains, 10,000 feet, June; Djago, 11,200-12,000 feet, 

 April; Shangentze, 14,500 feet. May; Chiichulongba, 13,000-14,000 

 feet, no date) . 



68. DRYOBATES DARJELLENSIS DESMURSI (Verreaux) 



Picus desmursi Verreaux, Nouv. Arcb. Mus. Paris, vol. 6, Bull., p. 33, 1870 

 (mountains of Cbinese Tibet). 



One adult male, Ndamucho, 14,000 feet, Yunnan, October. 



The United States National Museum contains an adult female from 

 Yunnan and another from Mount Omei, Szechwan. They do not 

 seem to differ appreciably. Specimens of typical D. darjellensis are 

 not available for comparison. 



