Fkbruart 27, 1923 Vol. VIII, pp. 41-42 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 



A NEW BULBUL FROM FUKIEN, CHINA 



BY OUTRAM BANGS AND THOMAS EDWARD PENARD 



Our good friend, Mr. F. R. Wulsin, was in China in 1921 and 

 1922, collecting for the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Al- 

 though his own work was done in a different part of the country, 

 he was enabled, by the generosity of Dr. Thomas Barbour, to 

 purchase for the Museum from a local dealer and collector, Ho 

 Ting-sho, a lot of 366 bird skins, mostly from Fukien. 



The Rev. Harry R. Caldwell kindly translated the Chinese 

 labels on these birds and furnished us with manuscript notes on 

 some of the species. He particularly called our attention to the 

 Haringtonia, stating that the white-headed H. leucocephalus 

 leucocephalus, of which there were half a dozen skins, is common 

 at lower altitudes in Fukien, but that a pair of birds slightly 

 larger, with black heads and narrow white frontal bands, be- 

 longs to a different form, entirely a bird of the higher mountains, 

 one with which he himself was very familiar. 



We therefore name the mountain form 



Haringtonia leucocephalus montivagus subsp. nov. 



Type, from the Jenping Mountains, Fukien, China, adult d" , no. 88,242, 

 M. C. Z., April 23, 1921. 



Characters. — Similar to H. leucocephalus leucocephalus (Gmelin), but 

 slightly larger; the adult male with whole head black like rest of plumage, 



