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listed as G. argyrophrys, but whether these differences would hold in 

 a larger series is problematical. 



234. CARPODACUS ARGYROPHRYS Berlioz 



Carpodacus argyrophrys Berlioz, Bull. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 131, 

 1929 (new name for Carpodacus davidianus Authors, not Milne-Edwards). 



Three males and six females from southwest Szechwan (forests of 

 Djishigotong, 12,500-13,000 feet, northeast of Muli, July; valley of 

 the Yalung River above Reddo, 11,000 feet, July ; forests of Bonti, 

 east of Waerhdje, 13,000 feet, July ; Raronki, Shouchu Basin, north 

 of Muli, August; Yulonghsi Valley, 13,000-16,000 feet, May); one 

 female, Yunnan (Mbayiwua, Yangtze loop, 10,000 feet, April). 



Bangs and Peters ^^ have recently given the differential characters 

 between the present species and G arpodacus pulcherrimus {eos Strese- 

 mann), so they need not be repeated here. The wings of the three 

 males measure 82-85 (83.7) mm.; the seven females, 80.5-83.5 (82), 



235. CARPODACUS THURA FEMININUS Rippon 



Carpodacus fcmininus Rippon, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 19, p. 31, 1906 

 (Yangtze River, west Yunnan). 



Twenty-one males and nineteen females from southwest Szechwan 

 (mountains of Kulu, 11,000-13,000 feet, December and April; Muli 

 Mountains, 10,000 feet. May; Mount Gibboh, 13,000 feet, Muli, May; 

 Mount Mitzuga, 13,000-15,500 feet, Muli, June ; back of Mount Mit- 

 zuga, 14,500 feet, June; Mount Konka, 15,600-16,500 feet, June; 

 Watogomba, Yalung watershed, 12,500 feet, July; Djishigotong, 

 12,500-13,500 feet, northeast of Muli, July; Chide, 14,500 feet, north- 

 east of Muli, July; Bonti, east of Waerhdje, 12,500 feet, July; Rona- 

 pieji, Shouchu Basin, north of Muli, August; Raronki, Shouchu 

 Basin, 12,600 feet, north of Muli, August; Shelan, Muli, 13,400 feet, 

 April; Aloching, north of Kulu, Muli, 12,500-13,500 feet, April; 

 Briiolokong Valley, north of the Druduron Pass, 13,000-15,900 feet, 

 May ; Shangentze, base of Druduron Pass, 14,500 feet. May ; Yanwe- 

 kong Valley, north of the Wanzanron Pass, 10,000-12,000 feet, May) ; 

 one male and one female, Likiang Mountains, 11,000 feet, Yunnan, 

 January. 



Three males from Kansu are lighter above and smaller than speci- 

 mens from the mountains farther south. With more ample material 

 than available when the Yunnan collection of Doctor Rock was 

 worked up,*" I now think that the breeding bird of western Szechwan 

 as far north as Sungpan will have to be assigned to the southern 

 form. The 3 males from Kansu have wings 80-82 (81.3) mm.; 6 



5= Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 68, p. 374, 1928. 



^ Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 5, p. 57, 1926. 



