AKT. 7 BIEDS FROM YUNNAN AND SZECHWAN, CHINA RILEY 61 



Family SYLVIIDAE, Old World Warblers 



176. OLIGURA CASTANEOCORONATA DEJEANI (Oustalet) 



Cryptolopha dejeaiii Oustalet, Bull. Mus. Paris, 1896, p. 316 (Tatsienlu, 

 Szechwan). 



One female, back of Mount Mitzuga, 13,000 feet, Muli, southwest 

 Szechwan, June. 



Two males, and four females before me from China agree in being 

 more olive-green above, the pileum lighter chestnut, and the lower- 

 parts a lighter yellow than a single specimen examined from Sikkim 

 The Chinese specimens are considerably larger. The wings of the six 

 Chinese specimens measure 52.5-56 mm. (54.7) ; the single Sikkim 

 specimen, 47.5 mm. 



177. SUVA CRINIGERA CATHARIA (Reichenow) 



I'rinia catharia Reichenow. Oiii. Monatsb., vol. 16, p. 13, 1908 (Ta-.sieng-lii- 

 ting, Szechwan). 



Six males and one unsexed, southwest Szechwan (Mutirong, 7,000- 

 7,800feet, Muli, April'). 



The above series belongs with the birds that I formerly identified 

 as S. c. yunnanensisJ* This is not surprising, as the above locality 

 is not so very far off across the Yangtze in the Yalung Gorge. A 

 male from Ningyuanfu, Szechwan, in the National Museum, also 

 seems to belong here. A male from Kiating has the margins of the 

 feathers of the upperparts more brownish than in the Muli series, but 

 it was taken late in June, and this difference may be seasonal. It 

 matches a male from the Likiang Mountains taken in July. If S. c. 

 yunnanensis is recognizable, it must be confined to western Yunnan 

 and eastern Burma. The six males from Muli measure : Wing, 46-48 

 (47) ; culmen, 10.5-11 (10.7) mm. 



178. CISTICOLA JUNCIDIS CURSITANS (Franklin) 



Pnnia cursitans Feanklin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1831, p. 118 (between 

 Calcutta and Benares). 



One male, Yungning Plain, 9,300 feet, northwest Yunnan, May. 



This specimen does not differ appreciably from birds from 

 Shanghai, in size or color. I have examined only one bird from 

 India, but Stuart Baker ^^ assigns Yunnan birds to this race. If the 

 eastern Chinese specimens belong to the same race, as the material 

 in the United States National Museum seems to show, then Calaman- 

 thelJa tinnaboilnns Swinhoe ''■'" must become a synonym. The wing 



'< Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 5, p. 46, 192G. 



■^5 Fauna of British India, Birds, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 422, 1924. 



'^'' .Tourn. Asiat. Soc. North China Branch, vol. 1. p. 225. 1859. 



