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Noon forest, 10,500 feet, east of Muli, August; Mutirong, 7,000- 

 7,800 feet, Muli, April; Yanwekong, 10,700 feet, May; Tatsienlu, 

 9,500-10,000 feet. May). 



157. CHAIMARRHORNIS LEUCOCEPHALA (Vigors) 



Phoenicura leticocephala Vigors. Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 1830, p. 35 

 (Himalayas). 



One male, one female, and one unsexed, northwest Yunnan (Li- 

 kiang Mountains, October and February; Chiitien, 6,500 feet, Octo- 

 ber) ; two males and one unsexed, southwest Szechwan (Mount 

 Konka Chanandodji, 15,800 feet, August; Noon stream, 10,500 feet, 

 east of Muli, August; Tatsienlu, 9,500-10,000 feet, May). 



158. PHOENICURUS ERYTHROGASTER MAXIMUS Kleinschmidt 



Phoenicurus erytlirogaster maximiis Kleinschmidt, Abh. Ber. Miis. Tierk. Vol- 

 kerk. Dresden, vol. 16, no. 2, author's separate, p. 8, 1923 (.Taueti, Rom- 

 batsa, and Chuwo, Tibet) ; idem, 1924, p. 42. 



One adult female, Likiang Mountains, 10,000 feet, January-Feb- 

 ruary. 



This specimen is considerably darker above and below than two 

 females from Kashmir of Phoenicurus erythrog aster grandis. The 

 Likiang female measures : Wing, 103 ; tail, 75 ; culmen, 15 mm. The 

 two females from Kashmir, measure: Wing, 95-102; tail, 71-73; 

 culmen, 12-12.5 mm. The present race was founded upon size alone. 

 It would appear to have a somewhat larger bill, and, if the color dif- 

 ference pointed out above holds, it is well worthy of recognition. 



159. PHOENICURUS AUROREUS (Pallas) 



■MotaciUa aurorea Pallas, Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des russischen 

 Reichs, vol. 3, p. 695, 1776 (Selenka, Lake Baical). 



One male, forests of Lapo-laze, 10,000 feet, Yunnan, May; one 

 young in the spotted plumage, forests of Noon, east of Muli, 10,500 

 feet, August ; and one male, Yanwekong, 10,700 feet, May, southwest 

 Szechwan. 



Though I am not now recognizing P. a. leucopterus, I am not 

 sure but that eventually it will have to be done. All the specimens 

 examined by me from the mountains of Szechwan and Yunnan 

 appear to be darker below and on the head than the majority of the 

 birds taken farther north. There appears to be little or no differ- 

 ence in size. The majority of the adult specimens from the moun- 

 tains are nonbreeding birds, and some of these differences may be 

 due to the unworn condition of the plumage. Stuart Baker ^° is 

 wrong when he states that the species breeds only from Lake Baical 



'" Fauna of British India, Birds, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 72, 1924. 



