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Yulinggong: 11,000 feet, in the Jesilougba Valley, 10 miles south of Tatsienlu, 

 May, 1929. This evidently is the same locality visited by the Kev. David 

 C. Graham in 1923, who spelled the name " U Long Kong." ' 



Yulo: West of the Likiang Mountains, 7,000 feet, Yunnan, August, 1929. 



Yulonghsi Valley: Tatsienlu territory, 13,000-16,000 feet, May, 1929. Grass- 

 lands resembling very much the grasslands of eastern Tibet and extreme 

 western Kansu. Yulonghsi is separated from the Minya Konka snovp 

 range by a high, grassy, rock-crowned spur but lies parallel to the snow 

 range. It is 3 or 4 days' trip south of Tatsienlu and south of Jesila, the 

 pass across the northern end of the Minya Range. 



Yungning: City and prefecture, in northwest Yunnan near the Szechwan 

 border. Doctor Rock's men collected on the plain, in the mountains, and 

 on the lake, at 9,000 to 13,000 feet, Jlay, November, and December, 1928, 

 and January, 1929. 



Zimi Valley: West of Waerhdje, Muli, 14,000-15.000 feet, August, 1928. 



Family COLYMBIDAE, Grebes 



1. PROCTOPUS NIGRICOLLIS NIGRICOLLIS (Brehm) 



Podieeps nigricollis Brehm, Handbuch der Naturgeshichte aller Vogel Deutsch- 

 lands, p. 963, 1831 (Germany). 



One male, Yungning Lake, 9,000 feet, Yunnan, December. 



2. POLIOCEPHALUS RUFICOLLIS POGGEI (Reichenow) 



Podieeps nigricans poggei Reichenow, Journ. f. Orn., 1902. p. 125 (Tscliili, 

 China). 



Two males, Yungning Lake, 9,300-18,000 feet, Yunnan, May and 

 November-December. 



The specimen taken in winter is considerably larger than the one 

 taken in May, especially the bill. 



Family PHALACROCORACIDAE, Cormorants 



3. PHALACROCORAX CARBO SINENSIS (Shaw and Noddcr) 



Pelecanus sinensis Shaw and Nodder, The naturalist's miscellany, vol. 13, pi. 

 529, text, 1801 (China). 



One female, Yungning Lake, 9,500 feet, Yunnan, December. 

 Family ARDEIDAE, Herons 



4. ARDEOLA BACCHUS (Bonaparte) 



Buphus Mcchus Bonaparte, Conspectus generum avium, vol. 2, p. 127, 1855 

 (Malay Peninsula). 



One immature female, northwest Yunnan (Weihsi, 8,000-9,000 

 feet, September) ; one adult male and one adult female, southwest 

 Szechwan (Mutirong, 7,000-7,800 feet, Muli, April; Yanwekong, 

 10,700 feet. May). 



See Auk, vol. 42, p. 423, 1925. 



