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dible horn or plumbeous, darker at the tip ; the feet and toes orange 

 (duller in the female) ; the soles yellow; the claws horn-brown. 



The adult male has the forehead golden-yellow, changing to dull 

 olive-green on the crown ; the nape dull rufous ; the scapulars, back, 

 and rump rufous, more or less suffused with olive-green; the upper 

 tail coverts and tail black; the wing coverts and the exposed portion 

 of the quills olive-green, changing to olivaceous-rufous on the inner- 

 most secondaries; a white stripe from above the eye to the end of 

 the ear coverts; the entire underparts rufous, suffused with golden- 

 yellow on the abdomen. The adult female differs in having the fore- 

 head dull rufous and in lacking the golden suffusion on the underparts. 



Among the specimens before me, I find four recognizable races of 

 this piculet: (1) a distinctly green-backed population from Tongking 

 (Chapa, Chora), which are probably kinneari; (2) a deeply colored 

 rufous-backed population from Sikkim, Assam (north of the Brahma- 

 putra), Upper Burma (Mansum, Pyepat, Bhamo), which must be 

 considered ochracea; (3) a much paler and rather smaller population 

 from North Cachar, Pegu, North and East Thailand, which, for the 

 present, I call querulivox; (4) a population from South Tenasserim 

 and Peninsular Thailand, which agree in color with querulvoox but 

 differ from it in the more robust bill and from all others of the genus 

 in having the orbital skin blackish or slaty instead of red and which, 

 for the present, I take to be reichenowi. 



The original description of reichenowi is so incomplete that, without 

 examination of the type or at least of topotypes, it is impossible to say 

 that the population of Thayetchoung (type locality) are not small- 

 billed, red-orbited birds, in which case querulivox (1926) would become 

 merely a synonym of reichenowi (1911) and the more southern ex- 

 amples with slaty orbits would be left without a name. 



JYNX TORQUILLA CHINENSIS Hesse 



Chinese Wryneck 



lynx torquilla chinensis Hesse, On. Monatsb., vol. 19, 1911, p. 181 (China; type 



specimen from Peking, fide Hesse, Mitteil. Zool. Mus. Berlin, vol. 6, 1912, p. 



143). 

 Lynx torquilla, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 230 (listed) ; 



Ibis, 1920, p. 606 (Khun Tan). 

 lynx torquilla japonica, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, 



p. 568 (Chiang Rai). 

 Jynx torquilla japonica, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 158 



(Chiang Mai) ; 1936, p. 97 (Chiang Mai). 



The wryneck, as a winter visitor, doubtless occurs throughout our 

 area. Eisenhofer sent to Stockholm one unsexed, undated specimen 

 from Khun Tan. I have examples from Chiang Mai, Chom Thong, 

 and Mae Sariang. The extreme dates at Chiang Mai, where it was 

 rather common, are September 18 (1936) and March 14 (1931). 



