NO. 1539. NEW BIRDS FROM EASTERN ASIA— CLARK. 475 



base of the bill, causing the white malar patches to appear very dis- 

 tinct. The borders of the rectrices are buff instead of nearly white. 



Unfortunately, I have before me only four specimens, two from 

 Japan and two from Korea, not having been able to obtain any from 

 southern China (typical R. c. consobrinus) for c()mj>arison. From 

 what has been written on this species, however, I judge that l)irds 

 from China and Japan are alike in color, and the description of the 

 type fits my Japanese examples very well. The Japanese birds, how- 

 ever, are smaller than the bird described by Swinhoe, which agrees 

 with my Korean specimens in size; a careful comparison of Chinese 

 and Japanese specimens will probably make it necessary to recognize 

 SbR. c. japonicus. 



ACREDULA TRIVIRGATA MAGNA Clark, new subspecies. 



Type.—Csit. No. 114186 U.S.N.M.; male, Seoul, Korea; P. L. Jouy, 

 collector. 



Similar to A. t. trivirgatus from Japan, but larger, with a much 

 longer tail, with the white patch on the crown more extended, and the 

 dark stripe from the bill to the nape on either side (which is brownish 

 in color) consequently narrower, and with the white on the tertials 

 strongly tinged with bufty for their basal half. 



The measurements of the type are, wing, 67 mm. ; tail, 99 mm. ; tar- 

 sus, 17 mm. 



Six specimens of A. t. trivirgatus from Hondo average, -wing, 60 mm. ; 

 tail, 80 mm.; tarsus, 17 mm. 



