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Ndamiicho, 14,000 feet, October) ; two males, eight females, and two 

 spotted young, southwest Szechwan (Mount Konka, 14,500 feet, 

 June; Zimi Valley, 15,000 feet, Avest of Waerhdje, August; forests of 

 Bonti, 12,500 feet, July; Dshizhi, 13,500 feet, April; Aloching, 

 12,500-13,500 feet, Muli, April ; Mutirong, 7,000-7,800 feet, Yalung 

 Gorge, Muli, April). 



Tlie males seem to exhibit two color phases. One a cyaninc blue 

 above; the other marine blue. The former with the superciliary, 

 rump, and lesser wing coverts very dark; the latter with these areas 

 much lijrhter. Both stvles of coloration were taken at Mbayiwua. 



152. lANTHIA INDICA YUNNANENSIS (Rctlischild) 



Tarsiger indknis yunnanensis Rothschild, BuU. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 43, p. 10. 

 1922 (Likiang Range, Yunnan). 



One male and one female, Ndamucho, 14,000 feet, northwest Yun- 

 nan, October; one male, valle}^ above Djishi, 12,000 feet, southwest 

 Szechwan, July. 



Imithia indiea indiea is not represented in the United States Na- 

 tional Museum, but two adult males of the present race from farther 

 north and east in Szechwan (Washan and south of Suifu) are con- 

 siderably darker on the chest and outer margins of primaries than 

 the two males listed above. 



153. HODGSONIUS PHOENICUROmES PHOENICUROIDES (Gray) 



BradyiJterus plwenioaroides Gray, Catalogue of the specimen.s of Mammalia 

 and Birds of Nepal and Thibet, presented by B. H. Hodgson to the British 

 Museum, ed. 1, pp. 70, 153, 1846 (Nepal). 



Two males and one female, northwest Yunnan (Likiang Moun- 

 tains, October; and Luddii Mountains, 12,000-13,000 feet, August) ; 

 four males and three females, southeast Szechwan (Yalung River 

 Gorge below Reddo, 11,000 feet, July). 



Two of the specimens listed above as females are mucli darker 

 above and below than the two that are undoubted females. One 

 of these birds is acquiring blue feathers on the forehead, lesser wing- 

 coverts, and sides of neck on the right side. In both specimens 

 the white is restricted below to the belly, and the bills are black to 

 base or nearly so. It would appear as if these dark-colored speci- 

 mens were really young males. If this is so, then the young male 

 must molt from the spotted plumage of the juvenal dress into a 

 plumage resembling the female, but darker. Other specimens of 

 immature males from SzechAvan in the National Museum seem to 

 confirm this. In comparing females from widely separated locali- 

 ties due care should be taken to see that the specimens are correctly 

 sexed. The undoubted females have the lower mandible light col- 



