ART. 7 BIRDS FEOM YUNNAN AND SZECHWAN, CHINA EILEY 77 



males from western Szechwan (near Tatsienlu, 2; Sungpan, 4), 

 84^86.5 (85.5) ; 18 males from southwest Szechwan (Muli or vicin- 

 ity), 83-90 (86). 



This brings up a complication in the name for the southern form, 

 for Oustalet named Garpodacus duhius var. minor from Rata, Tibet, 

 and Tatsienlu, Szechwan.^^ He gives the wing as 83 mm., and it may 

 be that his type was only a migrant from farther north. 



Males taken in winter are more of an old rose below without the 

 carmine wash observable in breeding males, and the silvery pink shaft 

 lines of the throat become much reduced by wear until they almost 

 entirely disappear in July birds. This makes it necessary to use 

 specimens taken at approximately the same season or in the same 

 state of wear when comparing the various supposed geographic 

 forms. 



236. CARPODACUS EDWARDSII SATURATUS Blanford 



Carpodacus saturatus Blanford, Jouru, Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 41, pt. 2, p. 168, 

 pi. 8, 1872 (Tonglu). 



One adult female, mountains of Yungning, 12,000-13,000 feet, 

 Yunnan, November-December. 



In a former paper *^ an unsexed specimen from the Tseh Chung 

 Mountains, Mekong Valley, Yunnan, was referred doubtfully to 

 Oarpodacus ripponi {=^verreauxli) ', this was a mistake. It is a 

 female of the present form. 



237. CARPODACUS RUBICILLOmES RUBICILLOmES Przewalski 



Carpodacus ruhiciUoides Przewalski, Mongol i strana Tangut, vol. 2, 90, pi. 

 12, 1876 (mountains of Kansu) ; Rowley's Ornithological miscellany, vol 2, 

 p. 299, pi. 54, 1877 (translation). 



Two males and one female, Yulonghsi, 13,000-16,000 feet, May ; one 

 female, Minya Mountains, east of Yulonghsi, 14,500 feet, Szechwan, 

 no date. 



The above have been compared with a single male from Kansu. 

 The Szechwan males have slightly larger bills, and the plumules over 

 the nostrils are whitish; the same color as the forehead (pome- 

 granate purple) in the Kansu male. 



238. CARPODACUS VERREAUXII (David and Oustalet) 



Propasser verreauxii David and Oustalet, Les oiseaux de la Chine, p. 355, 1877 



( Moupin ) . 

 Propasser ripponi Sharpe. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol, 13, p. 11, 1902 (Gyi-dzin- 



shan, West Yunnan). (See Berlioz, Bull. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, vol. 1, p. 129, 



1929.) 



s'Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 3, vol. 6, p. 31, 1894. 

 88 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 5, p. 58. 1926. 



