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buckthorn brown ; tail, dark mouse gray, the outer feathers fringed externally 

 basally with the color of the rump; wing-coverts deep mouse gray edged out- 

 wardly with the color of the rump ; primaries and secondaries deep mouse 

 gray, the four outer primaries edged outwardly with light olive-gray, the inner 

 primaries, commencing with the seventh, and the secondaries edged externally 

 basally with buckthorn brown; under wing-coverts and inner margins of the 

 remiges basally, white; bill (in the skin) dull black; feet, blackish brown. 

 Wing, 61 ; tail, 58 ; culmen, 9.5 ; tarsus, 24 ; middle-toe, 13 mm. 



Remarks. — The U. S. National Museum contains eight specimens of P. r. 

 sordidior and all of the specimens, that are unstained around the head, have a 

 narrow white line above the eye and below it, but not meeting behind. Fulvetta 

 insperata does not show a trace of an eye-ring. In F. r. sordidior the black line 

 bordering the pileum on each side extends further forwards. Dr. Rock's men 

 took both F. r. sordidior and the present bird at the same locality, otherwise I 

 should have considered them only forms of the same species. This can liardly 

 be Fulvetta manipurensis Grant from Manipur, though judging from the inade- 

 quate description of the original describer and that of Stuart Baker (Fauna 

 Br. Ind., Birds, ed, 2, vol. I, 1922, p. 292) it is apparently closely related. The 

 latter compares it with F. vinipecta, however, while F. insperata resembles F. 

 ruficapillu more closely. 



119. FULVETTA RUFICAPILLA SORDIDIOR (Rippon) 



Proparus sordidior Rippon, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 13, p. 60, 1903 (Talifu, 

 Yunnan). 



One male and one unsexed, northwest Yunnan (Yulo, 7,000 feet, 

 August; and Ndamucho, 14,000 feet, October); two males and one 

 female, southwest Szechwan (Muli Mountains, 9,800-10,000 feet, 

 June; Mount Mitzuga, Muli, 10,000 feet, June; and forests of Noon 

 east of Muli, 10,500 feet, August). 



A poor female specimen of F. r. ru-ficapilla from Wenchwan, 

 Szechwan, taken in August is very close to the above female from 

 Noon, The pileum in ruftca'pillai is brighter, more russet, and the 

 cheeks are more strongly washed with a deeper and more vinaceous- 

 drab. 



120. FULVETTA VINIPECTA BIETI (Oustalet) 



Alcippe (Proparus) iieti Oustalet, Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 7, vol. 12, p. 284, pi. 9, 

 flg. 2, 1892 (Tatsienlou.) 



Three males, seven females, and six unsexed specimens from Yun- 

 nan (Likiang Mountains, 10,000 feet, January-February and Sep- 

 tember; Luddii Mountains, 12,000-13,000 feet, August) ; three males 

 and six females from southwest Szechwan (Muli, 10,500 feet, Decem- 

 ber; Mount Gibboh, 13,000 feet, Muli, May; Mount Mitzuga, 13,500 

 feet, Muli, June ; Watogomba forests, 12,500 feet, Yalung watershed, 

 July; forests of Bonti, east of Waerhdje, 12,500 feet, July; Zimi 

 Valley, west of Waerhdje, 15,000 feet, August; Mundon, 13,000 feet, 

 May). 



In the report of a previous collection by Doctor Rock,*'^ certain 

 differences between this race and Fulvetta v. vinipecta were given. 



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