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hunted here along with the indefatigable Pere David, nearly 

 twenty-five years previously. 



Trips were made to various likely places to the west 

 and south-west on the flanks of Tai-pei-shan (the Great 

 White Mountain), a high peak of the Tsing Ling range. 

 Bitter cold and very heavy snow were experienced, and for 

 eleven days they were confined in a mountain hut, half- 

 starved, and unable to do any shooting : this, according 

 to the local natives, was an interpolation by the mountain 

 deities, who resented the approach of strangers with firearms. 

 The district yielded some good birds, among which were : — 



Merula ruficollis (Pall.). 



E.UTICILLA HODGsoNi Moore. 



Trochalopterum ELLIOTT (Vcrr.) . 



Ianthocincla lunulata Verr. 

 A single pair only was obtained. 



Ehopophilus pekinensis (Swinhoe). 



A single skin only. This species was obtained in the 

 same district by Pere David, but appears to be a rare bird. 



CiNCLUS pallasi Tcmm. 



Anorthura nipalensis (Hodgs.). 



Four specimens were collected in this district, and nine in 

 N.W. Sechuen. There is considerable variation in colouring 

 and spotting, and the Shensi examples seem to be inter- 

 mediate between A. nipalensis and A. fumigata, as noted 

 already by P^re David (Ois. de la Chine, p. 226). 



Parus palustris L. 



ACREDULA FULIGINOSA (Verr.). 



Acredula glaucogularis Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vol. viii. 

 p. 65. 



I have also obtained specimens of this Tit from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Ichang. It is difficult to understand how it 

 could have been confused with A. glaucogularis by anyone 

 who had read the careful and accurate description by David 

 and Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, p. 292. 



