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116. TROCHALOPTERON STYANI Onstalet 



Trochalopteron styuni Oustalet, Bull. Muss. Paris, vol. 4, p. 226, 1898 (Tatsien- 

 lou, Szechwan). 



One male and five females from southwest Szechwan (Muli Moun- 

 tains, 10,000 feet, June; Noon Valley, 10,000 feet, east of Muli, 

 August) ; two males, three females, and one unsexed, north- 

 west Yunnan (Fuchuanshan, 10,000-12,000 feet, September; Weihsi, 

 11,000 feet, September; Ndamucho, 14,000 feet, October). 



These agree with specimens previously reported upon from Yun- 

 nan.*" 



117. FULVETTA STRIATICOLLIS YUNNANENSIS (Rothschild) 



Proparus striathollis yunnanensls Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 43, 

 p. 11, 1922 (Mekong-Salwin Divide, Yunnan). 



One male and one female, mountains of Kulu, 11,000 feet, Decem- 

 ber: one male and one female, Muli, 10,500 feet, December; one male, 

 Muli Mountains, 10,000 feet, June ; two males and one female. Mount 

 Mitzuga, Muli, 12,000-14,500 feet, June ; one female and one unsexed, 

 Djishigotong, Yalung Basin, 13,000 feet, July; all in Szechwan. 



Two females and one unsexed from Sungpan, northwest Szechwan 

 (all poor specimens), taken in July, when compared with the above 

 series appear to be not very different. The streaks on the throat and 

 nape are sparser and the brow^n on the inner primaries is not quite 

 so bright and pronounced in the northern specimens. 



118. FULVETTA INSPERATA Riley 



Fulvetta insperata Rilet, Proc. Biol. Soc Washington, vol. 43, p. 123, 1930 

 (Ndamucho, 14,000 feet, Yunnan). 



The type and only specimen w-as secured at Ndamucho, 14,000 feet, 

 Yunnan, October. 



This specimen agrees with no described species of the genus so far 

 as ascertained. It was described as follows: 



Similar to Fulvetta 7Hficapilla sordidiar, but pileum deep brownish drab, 

 instead of light mars brown ; no whitish around the eye ; inner primaries 

 and outer secondaries edged externally basally with buckthorn brown instead 

 of Sudan brown ; rump and the base of the rectrices a much lighter brown ; 

 throat more heavily streaked with dusky ; bill wholly black, instead of the 

 base being lighter; feet considerably heavier. 



Description. — Pileum deep brownish drab, bordered on each side above the 

 superciliary line and commencing just over the eye, by a black line extending 

 on to the upper back ; the superciliary, lores, ear-coverts, and cheeks, light 

 drab ; throat pale drab-gray with rather broad dusky streaks : chest and 

 breast, light drab ; belly a little lighter than the breast ; flanks and under taii- 

 coverts, buckthorn brown ; back, hair-brown ; lower back scapulars and rump, 



«Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 5, p. 25, 1926. 



