AKT. 7 BIEDS FEOM YUNNAN AND SZECHWAN, CHINA RILEY 25 



Specimens from the mountains of western China are somewhat 

 smaller and have the tails less deeply forked than Kashmir birds ; the 

 latter are a clearer white below and also on the rump. 



Family CAMPEPHAGIDAE, Cuckoo-shrikes 



76. PERICROCOTUS BREVIROSTRIS ETHOLOGUS Bangs and Phillips 



Pericrocotus 'brevlvostris ethologus Bangs and Phillips, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 58, p. 282, 1914 (Hsiensban, Hupeh). 



Three males and four females, northwest Yunnan (Likiang Moun- 

 tains, 10,000 feet, September ; Mbayiwua, 10,000 feet, April ; Liitien, 

 10,000 feet, September; Yulo, 7,000 feet, August) ; two males and two 

 females, southwest Szechwan (Mount Mitzuga, 12,000 feet, Muli, 

 June; Muli- Yunnan border, 11,000 feet, August). 



Family DICRURIDAE, Drongos 



77. CHIBIA HOTTENTOTA BREVIROSTRIS Cabanis 



Chibia hrevirostris Cabanis, Museum Heineanum, vol. 1, p. 112, 1850 (China). 

 One adult female, Tatsienlu, 9,500-10,000 feet, southwest Szech- 

 wan, May. 



78. DICRUEUS LEUCOPHAEUS NIGRESCENS Gates 



Dicrurus nigrescens Gates, in Hume's Nests and Eggs, ed. 2, vol. 1, p. 208, 1889 

 (Rangoon). 



Two males, one female, and one unsexed, northwest Yunnan 

 (Likiang Mountains, January-February, September, and October; 

 Luddii Mountains, 12,000-13,000 feet, August) ; one female, south- 

 west Szechwan (Mount Mitzuga, 10,000 feet, Muli, June). 



Family ORIOLIDAE, Old World Orioles 



79. ORIOLUS CHINENSIS TENUIROSTRIS Blyth 



Oriolus tenuirostris Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 15, p. 48, 1846 (cen- 

 tral India). 



One adult male, one immature male, one adult female, and one 

 immature female from northwest Yunnan (Likiang Mountains, Sep- 

 tember ; forests west of Yungning, 12,000 feet, May ; forests of Gowa, 

 10,000 feet. May). 



Family CORVIDAE, Crows 



80. NUCIFRAGA CARYOCATACTES MACELLA Thayer and Bangs 



Nucifraga heinispila macella Thayer and Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 

 52, p. 140, 1909 (Hsien-shan-hsien, Hupeh). 



Five males and two females, northwest Yunnan (Likiang Moun- 

 tains, 10,000 feet, January-February and September; Tokesher-Lapo, 



