330 Messrs. C. B. Rickett and J. D. D. La Touche on 



doubt referable to it, and agrees well with the figure given 

 by Verreaux and cited above. David met with the species 

 in Western Szechuen and at Moupin. — W. R. O. G.] 



7. Machlolophus REX A. David; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. viii. p. 367 (1883). 



$ jr. General plumage much as in the adult male, but 

 everywhere duller. The back is dark grey tinged with 

 green, and there is more black on the upper back than in 

 the adult bird ; the scapular feathers are dull green at their 

 extremity ; the white on the upper wing-coverts is mostly 

 tinged with yellow ; the tertiaries are fringed on the outer 

 web with green ; the primaries (partly grown) show no trace 

 of the white patch which in adults appears just beyond the 

 wing-coverts ; the median black of the underparts is only 

 just indicated, and the rest of the under plumage is of a 

 dingy light greenish mixed with dull grey. 



? jr. Like the adult female, but paler and duller all over ; 

 the white on the wings is more tinged with yellow ; third to 

 seventh primaries edged with yellowish grey below the 

 emargination, rest of quills edged with green. 



Six nestlings and an addled egg were taken by our col- 

 lectors out of a hole in a tree in May 1896. 



8. Pteruthius ^rilatus Tickell ; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. viii. p. 114 (1883). 



^ jr. Crown greenish grey, with here and there a few 

 black feathers ; a broad white eyebrow from above the 

 eye to the nape ; lores light greenish grey ; ear-coverts 

 grey ; a broad whitish stripe from the base of the lower 

 mandible down the sides of the neck ; hind-neck and upper 

 back like the head; back olive-green; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts grey mixed with a little green ; scapulars similar, 

 but some of the feathers nearest the wing with some black on 

 the outer webs ; wings, tail, and underparts as in adult male. 

 Culmen 0"-55, wing 3"-3, tail 2"'7, tarsus l"-05. 



Two adult males and two young males were shot at Kuatun 

 in September 1896, and a series of adult males and females 

 was obtained during the spring of 1897. Only two males 



