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Partly on this account it is very difficult to make out geographic 

 forms. I am quite in sympathy with Bangs and Peters's ®^ conclu- 

 sions in regard to the nonrecognition of A. h. yunnanensis and A. h. 

 herezowshli. The majority of specimens in collections have been 

 taken on migration; enough breeding birds have not been examined 

 to reach am- definite conclusions in regard to the status of the forms. 



211. ANTHUS ROSEATUS Blyth 



Anthus roseatus Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 16, p. 437, 1847 (Nepal). 



One adult male, Mount Mitzuga, 15,000 feet, Muli, June; one adult 

 male, one immature male, and two immature females, Mount Konka, 

 16,000-16,500 feet, June and August; two males, Dshizhi, Muli, 

 13,500 feet, April ; one male, Mutirong, Muli, 7,000-7,800 feet, April ; 

 two males, Briiolo-kong Valley, 13,000-15,900 feet. May; one male, 

 two females, and one unsexed, Shangentze, 14,500 feet, May; one 

 female, Chengtze, 14,500-15,900 feet. May; one male, Barongomba, 

 11,000-12,000 feet, no date; all the above localities in southwest 

 Szechwan. Tw^o males, Ndamucho, Yangtze-Mekong Divide, 14,000 

 feet, Yunnan, October. 



212. ANTHUS RICHARDI RICHARDI VieiUot 



Anthill richardi Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, d' Hist. Nat., vol. 36, p. 491, 1818 (France). 

 One female, Likiang Mountains, Yunnan. September. 



213. ANTHUS RICHARDI GODLEWSKII (Taczanowski) 



Agrodroma godlewskii Taczanowski, Bull. See. Zool. France, 1876, p. 128 

 (south Dauria). 



One male, Mount Gibboh, 13,000 feet, Muli, southwest Szechwan, 

 August. 



This specimen is much more richly colored, esj^ecially below, than 

 the specimen listed above as Anthus r. 7ichardi; the streaks on the 

 chest are heavier; and the hind claw is shorter. It measures: Wing, 

 91 ; hind claw, 13 mm. A male and an unsexed specimen taken near 

 Kiating, Szechwan, in worn breeding plumage, June 2 and 27, are in 

 the United States National Museum. They both have short hind 

 claws, measuring 13 mm. in the male and 11.5 mm. in the unsexed 

 specimen, and belong to the present form. A female from Tabool, 

 eastern Mongolia, August 9, three males and one female from Kansu 

 (near Ningsia, May 7 and 19, to the vicinity of Lanchow, July 16, 

 and Labrang, August 31) are also of the short-clawed form. Two 

 males and one unsexed from the vicinity of Ningsia, Kansu, May 7, 

 are of the long-clawed variety. Either the two forms occur together 

 on migration or else the short-clawed variety is only an individual 



s'Bull. Mils. Comp. Zool., vol. 68, p. 368, 1928. 



