QQ PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol.80 



Five males and seven females from southwest Szechwan (Mount 

 Mitzuga, 14,500-15,000 feet, Muli, June; Mount Konka, 14,800- 

 16,000 feet, June and August; forests above Djishi, 12,000 feet, July; 

 forests of Raronki, 12,400 feet, north of Muli, August; Yulonghsi, 

 13,000-16,000 feet, May; Chengtze, 14,500-15,900 feet. May; Yanwe- 

 kong, 10,700 feet. May). 



This bird is so different in color from Leptopoecile sophiae that 

 it seems to me it should be recognized as a species. Sex for sex it 

 is much darker, and the blue of the rump is not so bright ; the breast 

 and belly are a vinaceous-brown with a blue wash instead of a 

 pinkish buff. It is also smaller. 



Family MUSCICAPIDAE, Flycatchers 



196. CULICICAPA CEYLONENSIS CALOCHRYSEA Oberholser 



Culicicapa ceylonensis calochrysea Obekholser, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 



76, no. 6, p. 8, July 16, 1923 (Quaymos, Tenasserim). 

 Culicicapa ceylonensis orientalis Stuakt Baker, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. vol. 44, 



no. 281, p. 11, Nov. 5, 1923 (Szechwan). 



One male and two females, northwest Yunnan (forests of Gowa, 

 10,000 feet, May; Luddii Mountains, 12,000-13,000 feet, August; 

 Fuchuanshan, 10,000-12,000 feet, September). 



In the report upon Doctor Rock's previous collection from Yun- 

 nan,^^ I assigned a single specimen from the Likiang Mountains to 

 Culicicapa ceylonensis orientalis Baker, overlooking the fact that 

 Culicicapa ceylonensis calochinjsea Oberholser was an earlier name 

 proposed for the same form. The United States National Museum 

 now contains a fair series of this species from western Szechwan. 

 These and the Yunnan specimens when compared with Tenasserim 

 birds do not seem to differ racially in color or size. 



197. EUMYIAS THALASSINA THALASSINA (Swainson) 



Muscicapa thalassina Swainson, Natural history of flycatchers, Naturalist's 

 Library, vol. 10, Ornithology, p. 252, 1838 (India). 



One male, Likiang Mountains, September ; and two females, Yulo, 

 7,000 feet, Yunnan, August. 



198. CYORNIS RUBECULOIDES GLAUCICOMANS Thayer and Bangs 



Cyornis tickelUae glaucicomans Thayer and Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 52, p. 141, 1909 (Tanswioyah, Hupeh, China). 



One male, Muli Mountains, 10,000 feet, southwest Szechwan, May. 



The above specimen has the lesser wing coverts a shining Venetian 

 blue, but this seems to vary considerably in three males from Mount 

 Omei ; the wing measures 76 mm. 



«i Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. vol. 70. art. 5, p. 19, 1926. 



