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west of Waerhdje, August) ; one male and one female, Likiang 

 Mountains, 12,500 feet, Yunnan, January. 



245. LEUCOSTICTE WALTERI (Hartert) 



MontifringiUa Jyrandti walteri Habtert, Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna, 

 vol. 1, Heft 2, p. 138, 1904 (Sungpan, Szechwan). 



Five males and seven females, Jesila (three days' trip south of 

 Tatsienlu) 15,600-16,330 feet. May; two males and seven females, 

 Mount Konka, 16,000-17,000 feet, June, Szechwan. 



This is not a typical member of the genus Leucosticte Swainson. 

 The nasal plumules are not so dense or do not cover the nostrils so 

 thoroughly. It has the same long wing tip, emarginated tail, and 

 other characters of the genus, however. 



Hellmayr,^- the latest author to review the races of Leucosticte 

 hrandti^ makes the present bird only a race of that species, but it 

 is so much darker in every way that, it seems to me, to make it a form 

 of that species is to obscure these great differences; the rosy margins 

 to the rump feathers in walteri are much reduced. 



Mount Konka seems to be the most southern locality from which 

 the species has been reported so far. The United States National 

 ]\Iuseum also has a series from the vicinity of Tatsienlu collected by 

 the Rev. David C. Graham. The two series are essentially alike. 



246. FRINGALAUDA NEMORICOLA NEMORICOLA Hodgson 



Fringalauda nemoricoJa Hodgson, Asiat. Res., vol. 19, p. 158, 1836 (Nepal). 



Two males. Mount Mitzuga, 14,500 feet, Muli, June; one male 

 and two females, Mount Konka, 16,500 feet, June; two males, 

 Mutirong, 7,000-7,800 feet, Muli, April ; three males and two females, 

 Yulonghsi, 13,000-16,000 feet. May; one female and one unsexed, 

 south base of the Druduron Pass, 14,500 feet, May; two females, 

 Minya Mountains, 14,500 feet, no date; all the above localities in 

 western Szechwan. 



All have the streaked heads of the adult plumage. 



247. SPINUS AMBIGUUS (Oustalet) 



Chrysomitris ambigua Oustalet, Bull. Mus. Paris, vol. 2, p. 186, 1896 (Yunnan). 



Thirteen adults, both sexes, from northwest Yunnan (Likiang 

 Mountains, January-February, September, October, and November) ; 

 one immature male in the streaked plumage from southwest Szech- 

 wan (Noon forests, 10,500 feet, east of Muli, August). 



•2 Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ. 263, Zool. Ser., vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 51-57, 1929. 



