ART. 7 BIEDS FROM YUNlsTAN- AND SZECHWAN, CHIFA RILEY 9 



19, CERCHNEIS TINNUNCULUS SATURATUS (BIyth) 



Falco saturatus Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 28, p. 277, 1859 (Tenas- 

 serini ) . 



Two females, Lildang Mountains, Yunnan, October ; three females, 

 southwest Szechwan (Dzeru. Shouchu Valley, 11,300 feet, August, 

 and Mutirong, 7,000-7,800 feet, Muli, April). 



This is the dark resident race of this falcon that I formerly called 

 CercTineis tiimunculus interstinctiM^^ following earlier authors. 



20. FALCO REGULUS LYMANI Bangs 



Falco aesalon lymani Bangs, Bull. Mus. Coinp. Zool., vol. 54, p. 465, 1912 

 (Tchegan-Burgazi Pass, Altai). 



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

 December. 



This specimen agrees with a female from the original typical 

 series, except the streaks below are a little broader. 



Family TETRAONIDAE, Grouse 



21. TETRASTES SEWERZOWI SECUNDA Riley 



Tetrastes seicerzowi secunda Riley, Auk, vol. 42, p. 423, 1925 (near Tatsienlu, 

 Szechwan). 



One adult female and three young, Ronapien region, Shouchu 

 Basin, 14,500 feet, August. 



The young are just changing from the down into the first postnatal 

 plumage and are probably not more than 2 weeks old at the most. 

 Though the collector assigns all three of the above young to the adult, 

 in my opinion he is in grievous error. One of the young belongs to 

 the adult; the other two have a different color pattern, the tails 

 about an inch long are brick red with a subterminal black spot and 

 buffy tip ; the tarsi are unfeathered. I would suggest they belong to 

 Perdix hodgsoniae sifanica. 



Family PHASIANIDAE, Pheasants 



22. PERDIX HODGSONIAE SIFANICA Przewalski 



Perdix sifanica Przewalski, Mongol i strana Tangut, vol. 2, p. 124, 1876 (moun- 

 tains of Kansu) ; Rowley's Ornithological miscellany, vol. 2, p. 423, 1877. 



Two males and six females, southwest Szechwan (Mount Konka, 

 15,700 feet, August; Yulonghsi Valley, 13,000-16,000 feet, May; 

 Jesilongba Valley, 14,300 feet, June). 



The undoubted males, taken in the breeding season, have a bare 

 space below the eye and extending back of the eye over the ear cov- 



'Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 5, p. 11, 1926. 



