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erts; below the eye, separated from the subocular bare space by a 

 narrow line of feathers, there is another bare space, and this second 

 bare space contains some small wartlike structures, still red in the 

 skin, and evidently in life capable of being inflated. According to 

 the sexing of the collectors, both sexes have this inflatable skin, but 

 the sexing of Rock's men is very unreliable and not to be trusted. I 

 have no good seasonable material for comparison. 



23. ITHAGINIS CRUENTUS GEOFFROYI Verreaux 



Ithagmis geoffroyi Vebreaux, Bull. Soc. d'Acclim., ser. 2, vol. 4, p. 700, 1867 

 (Mupin). 



Fourteen males and twelve females, southwest Szechwan (Mount 

 Mitzuga, 12,500-14,500 feet, June; Bonti, east of Waerhdje, 14,500 

 feet, July; forests of Raronki, 12,500 feet, Shouchu Basin, August; 

 Aloching, 12,500-13,500 feet, April ; Dshizhi, 13,500 feet, April ; Wen- 

 ronkong, 14,500 feet, Muli, April-May; Mundon, 13,000 feet, May; 

 Shangentze, 14,500 feet, May; Jesilongba, 14,500-16,000 feet. May; 

 Chengtze, 14,500-15,900 feet, south of Tatsienlu, May). 



The present form and Ithaginis c. clarkei are very much alike ; the 

 only constant difference in a series of both forms appears to be the 

 blackish or dark mouse-gray chin of geoffroyi, this part in clarkei 

 being buffy tinged with a reddish wash. There are a number of 

 average characters separating tlie two forms, however. The females 

 appear to be indistinguishable. The ranges of the two forms are 

 very close to each other in this region, apparently only separated by 

 the valley of the Yangtze. 



Along with the rough skeletons sent in by the Rev. David C. Gra- 

 ham from the Yulonghsi Gorge (written Ulongsi by Graham) there 

 are two immature males, about half grown, taken August 9. They 

 have already begun to assume the red under tail coverts and green of 

 the adult plumage, while the tarsi are still small and delicate and 

 the bills small and red. This seems to indicate that the adult plum- 

 age of the male is assumed some time before adult growth is reached 

 and explains the difference in size between Ithaginis wilsoni Thayer 

 and Bangs and geo-ffroiji^ and the reason the two were both found on 

 Washan. 



24. ITHAGINIS CRUENTUS CLARKEI Rothschild 



Ithaginis clarkei Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, a'oI. 40, p. 67, 1920 (Likiang 

 Mountains, Yunnan). 



One male, Likiang Mountains, 12,500 feet, Yunnan, January. 



25. LERWA LERWA MAJOR Meinertzh.ngen 



Lerwa lertoa major Meinertzhagen, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 47, p. 101, 1927 

 (Tatsienlu, Szechwan). 



One male, Lildang Mountains, 15,000 feet, Yunnan, January. 



