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The three specimens from southwest Szechwan when compared 

 with two males and one female from northwest Yunnan are consid- 

 erably paler on the back and lowerparts, especially the latter. This 

 may be due to fading, as the three Szechwan birds were taken in May 

 while the Yunnan specimens were taken in September, November, 

 and March. 



123. MOUPINIA POECILOTIS SORDIDIOR Rotlischild 



Moupinia poeoilotis sordidior Rothschild, Nov. Zool., vol. 28, p. 36, 1921 

 (Likiang Range, Yunnan). 



Two males and one female from Yunnan (Likiang Mountains, 

 January-February, September, and October) ; six males, one female, 

 and two unsexed from southwest Szechwan (Kulu Mountains, 11,000 

 feet, December; Muli Mountains, 10,000-11,000 feet, June; Zimi 

 Valley, 15,000 feet, west of Waerhdje, August; Noon, 10,500 feet, 

 east of Muli, August; Dshizhi, 13,500 feet, April). 



This series is barely separable from four skins from western 

 Szechwan (Sungpan, Wenchwan, Tashiang-lin Pass, Mount Omei). 

 The superciliaries in M. p. poecUotis are whitish, not so grayish as 

 M. p. sordidior; the cheeks more tinged with bujffy. The throats in 

 M. p. poeoilotis are not a clearer white as formerly stated *^ ; this 

 was a slip of the pen. 



124. SCHOENIPARUS DUBIUS GENESTIERI (Oustalet) 



Aloippe geiiestieri Oustalbt, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 3, p. 210, 1897 

 (Tsekou, Yunnan). 



Three females, northwest Yunnan (Ndamucho, 14,000 feet, Octo- 

 ber; Yungning Plain, 9,500 feet, December); four males and one 

 female, southwest Szechwan (Noon Valley, 10,500 feet, east of Muli, 

 A-ugust). 



In reporting upon an earlier collection *® made by Doctor Rock in 

 Yunnan, I recognized Schoenipamis interniedius as a very distinct 

 race of duMits. Since then Lord Rothschild says that he and Doctor 

 Hartert have reached the firm opinion that intei^nedius is nothing 

 more than an immature stage of plumage of genestieri.^^ 



This has caused me to reexamine my series. All the specimens I 

 then called S. g. genestieri are apparently birds of the year taken in 

 June and August with a rusty cast above, especially on the wings 

 and tail. I have never seen a very young bird of this species, but 

 the young of Schoeniparus hrwvneus olivaceus is more rufous than 

 the adult and it is logical to suppose it would be also in genestieri. 



«»Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 5, p. 29, 1926. 



• Idem. 



••Nov. Zool., vol. 33, p. 270, 1926. 



