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One male and two females, Mount Mitzuga, 12,500-13,000 feet, 

 Miili, southwest Szechwan, June; one male, Luddii Mountains, 

 12,000-13,000 feet, northwest Yunnan, August. 



239, CARPODACUS VINACEUS Verreaux 



Carpodacus vinaceus Verreaux, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. 6, Bull., p. 39, 

 1870 (mountains of Chinese Tibet). 



One adult female, forests of Shaya, northeast of Muli, 14,000 feet, 

 southwest Szechwan, July; one adult female, Luddii Mountains, 

 12,000-18,000 feet, northwest Yunnan, August. 



240. CARPODACUS TRIFASCIATUS Verreaux 



Carpodacus trifasciaius Verreaux, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. 6, Bull., p. 39, 

 1870 (mountains of Chinese Tibet). 



One adult male, valley of Shenla, Kulu-Djago, 12,000 feet, south- 

 west Szechwan, December. 



241. PYRRHOSPIZA PUNICEA SZETSCHUANA Bianchi 



Pyrrhospisa pnnieea szetschuana Bianchi, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersburg, 

 1907, no. 6, p. 189 (southeast Kansu and northern Szechwan). 



Thirteen males and twelve females from southwest Szechwan 

 (Mount Mitzuga, 15,200-15,600 feet, Muli, June; Mount Konka, 

 16,000-16,500 feet, Muli, June; Mount Gibboh, 13,000-14,000 feet, 

 Muli, April ; Briiolo-kong Vallej' , north of Druduron Pass, 13,000- 

 15,900 feet, May; Yankongran Pass, 15,500 feet, Muli, May; Chip- 

 rinla, 16,500 feet, July; Chengtze, 14,500-15,900 feet. May). 



This series is being assigned to the above race upon geographic 

 grounds. I have been able to compare it with Pyrrhospiza punicea 

 hii/mii from Kashmir and East Turkestan, from which it differs in 

 being much darker above; the red below and on the rump deeper 

 and more brilliant; and the bill is longer. Nine males from south- 

 west Szechwan measure: Wing, 112-119 (115.7); culmen, 17.5-19.5 

 (18.3) mm. The 10 females: Wing, 104.5-112.5 (109.4); culmen, 

 18-19 (18.4) mm. This is a considerably longer culmen than Stuart 

 Baker gives for Pyrrhospisa punicea pimicea from Nepal, etc. Pyr- 

 rhospiza punicea longlrostrls was described from northwestern 

 Kansu, the only definite locality mentioned in the translation of 

 Przewalski *^ is Gadjur, a mountain near the Tatung, northeast of 

 Sining. Bianchi"" confines its range to the mountains of northeast- 

 ern Tibet and the Sining Mountains, eastern Nanshan (Tetung 

 Mountains). Pyrrhospiza punicea szefschuana was described from 

 southeastern Kansu and northern Szechwan, but the only definite 



■» Rowley, Ornithological Miscellany, vol. 2, d. 304, 1877. 

 o^Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersburg, no. 6, p. 191, 1907, 



