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Two winter specimens from Chengtu, Szechwan, have a more rusty 

 tinge to the upperparts. 



104. CERTHIA FAMILIARIS KHAMENSIS Bianchi 



Certhia khamensis Bianchi, in Sharpe's Handlist of the genera and species of 

 birds, vol. 4, pp. 355, 360, 1903 (Kausu: Szechwan; southeast Tibet). 



One adult unsexed from Yunnan (Likiang Mountains, 10,000 feet, 

 January-February) ; one male and one unsexed from southwest 

 Szechwan (Mount Gibboh, Muli, 13,000 feet, May; Mount Mitzuga, 

 Muli, 13,000 feet, June). 



105. TICHODROMA MURARIA (Linnaeus) 



Certhia muraria Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, p. 184, 1766 (south Europe), 



One male. Mount Konka, 15,700 feet, August; and one female, 

 Djago, 11,200-12,000 feet, April, both in Muli, southwest Szechwan. 



Family TIMALIIDAE, Babbling- Thrushes 



106. lANTHOCINCLA MAXIMA (Verreaux) 



Pterorhinus maximus Verbeaux, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. 6, Bull., p. 36, pi. 3, 

 fig. 1, 1870 (mountains of Chinese Tibet). 



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

 tains, 10,000 feet, January-February, and Ndamucho, 14,000 feet, 

 October) ; seven males, five females, one unsexed, and one immature, 

 southwest Szechwan (Muli, 10,000 feet, December; Mount Mitzuga, 

 12,500 feet, June ; back of Mount Mitzuga, 12,000-13,000 feet, June ; 

 Mount Konka, 14,600 feet, June; forests of Bonti, east of Waerhdje, 

 12,500 feet, July; Mount Gibboh, 12,500-14,000 feet, south of Muli, 

 August and April; Zimi Valley, 14,600 feet, west of Waerhdje, Au- 

 gust; Chiu-lung-hsien, May; Shangentze, 14,500 feet, at the foot of 

 Druduron Pass, May). 



The immature bird is not long from the nest and was taken in June. 

 The plumage is almost a duplicate of that of the adult. The hazel 

 of the throat and ear coverts is considerably lighter ; the neutral gray 

 bases of the feathers of the jugulum show through, making a dark 

 patch and the middle tail feathers are w^arm sepia. An older speci- 

 men, but a bird of the year, taken in July, has the colors of the throat 

 and ear coverts deepened; and the neutral gray jugular patch more 

 pronounced. 



107. lANTHOCINCLA BIETI Oustalet 



lanthocincia hieti Oustalet, Bull. Mu;^. Paris, vol. 3, p. 163, 1897 (Tatsienlu, 

 Szechwan). 



One male, Ndamucho, 14,000 feet, Yunnan, October; and one 

 female. Mount Gibboh, 13,000-14,000 feet, Muli, Szechwan, April. 

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