collected in South China. 583 



27. SiTTA MAGNA. 



Sitta magna Wardlaw Ramsay ; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 viii. p. 345 (1883). 



a. J ad. Wei-yiian, S. Yunnan, 19 March, 1899. 



Iris dark brown. Total length 8 inches. 



There is a fine adult male of this very rare Nuthatch from 

 AVei-yiian, which differs somewhat from the only male 

 specimen in the British Museum. In addition to the female 

 type obtained by Major Wardlaw Ramsay from Karen-nee, 

 the collection now possesses a pair of S. magna obtained at 

 Kalaw, South Shan States, in May, by Major G. Rippon ; 

 both male and female have the basal half of the lower 

 mandible white. The type female killed in January resembles 

 the female from Kalaw, but the white on the base of the 

 raandil)le is much less defined and suffused with dusky horn- 

 colour. Capt. Wingate's bird, shot in March, has the bill 

 blackish horn, with hardly a trace of whitish mottling 

 towards the base of the lower mandible ; the culmen, 

 measuring r32 inch, is, moreover, somewhat longer than that 

 of the typ?", which, though the largest of the three specimens 

 in the collection, has a culmen measuring only 125 inch. 

 There can be little doubt that the bird before us is a fully 

 adult male of S. magna ; the difference in the colour of the 

 mandible is probably seasonal, the white base denoting the 

 breeding biril. 



28. iExHOPYfJA SAXGUINIPECTUS. 



jEthopyga sanguinipectus Waldcn ; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. ix. p. 27 (1884). 



a. S ad. Man-lo, near Mong-seu, Southern Yunnan, 

 22 March, 1899. 



Iris brown. Total length 6 inches. 



29. ^THOPYGA DABIIVI. 



Mt.hopyga dabryi (Verr.) ; David & Oustal. Ois. Chine, 

 p. 80, pi. 11 (1877) ; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 28 

 (1881.). 



a. J ad. Nan-an-chu, near Yunnan city, E. Yunnan, 

 28 February, 1899. 



