ART. 7 BIEDS FROM YUNNAN AND SZECHWAN, CHINA RILEY 75 



232. CARPODACUS MURATI Delacour 



Carjwdacus erythrinus muratl Delacour, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 47, p. 20, 

 1926 (Noug-Het, Laos). 



One adult male, Weihsi, 8,000-9,000 feet, northwest Yunnan, Sep- 

 tember. 



As this specimen was unlike any species of the genus known to me 

 from China, I took it to be an unnamed form and forwarded it to 

 Outram Bangs for his opinion. He has identified it as above and 

 writes : " Your bird is just completing its autumnal molt. It is 

 rather darker above than the run of the series and the back feathers 

 have rather less brownish edges. All this may be due to the freshness 

 of the plumage or it may not." 



He also says that the Museum of Comparative Zoology has a series 

 from southern Yunnan (Mengtsz). It apparently is only a winter 

 visitor to southern Yunnan and Laos. Where it breeds is apparently 

 unknown. The present record is the farthest north point from which 

 it has been taken, so far as I am aware, and would seem to point to a 

 breeding range in eastern Tibet or the high mountains of western 

 Szechwan. 



This bird is so very different from Carpodacus erythrinus or any 

 of its known forms that I am of the opinion that it is really not a 

 race of that species at all but a distinct species. In G. murati the 

 pileum is near acajou red and the throat alizarine pink, while in G. 

 erythr^inus roseatus the pileum and throat are near spectrum red ; the 

 two birds are of about the same size, however. The above specimen 

 of G. 77iurati measures : Wing, 81 ; tail, 52 ; culmen, 12 mm. 



It seems to me that the type of Garpodacus laetissimus Walton^* 

 from Chaksam, Tibet, should be compared with the present species. 



233. CARPODACUS EOS (Stresemann) 



Erythrina eos Steesemann, Orn. Monatsb., vol. 38, p. 75, 1930 (Suugpan, 

 Szechwan). 



Three males and five females from southwest Szechwan (Mount 

 Mitzuga, 14,500 feet, Muli, June; Bonti, east of Waerhdje, 13,000 

 feet, July; Mount Konka, 15,700-16,000 feet, August; Shelan, 13,400 

 feet, Muli, April ; Mundon, 13,000 feet. May ; Chiichulongba Valley, 

 north of Tanku, 13,000-14,000 feet, no date). 



The wings of the three males measure 75, 75, and 75.5 mm.; the 

 five females, 71.5, 72, 73, 73.5, and 73.5. The females of the present 

 species and the same sex of G. argyrophrys are extremely hard to 

 oifferentiate, and for the present their identification will have to de- 

 pend upon size. The five females identified above as this species are 

 certainly lighter below and less heavily streaked than the females 



«Bul]. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 3 5, p. 93, 1005. 



