ART. 5 BIEDS FROM YUNNAN AND SZECHWAN, CHINA EILEY 3 



none too well known. I have made my remarks on the forms brief, 

 only adding such notes as will be of use to future workers in the same 

 general region. 



I am indebted to Outram Bangs for the identification of three 

 species of the following list. 



ANNOTATED LIST 



Family PHASIANIDAE. Pheasants, etc. 



1. TETRAOPHASIS SZECHENYII Madarasz 



Tefraophasis szeclicnyii Madarasz, Zeitschr. f. ges. Orii., vol. 2, 1885, p. 50, 

 pi. 2 (East Tibet). 



One male, Likiang Mountains, 16,000 feet, June 14; one male and 

 one female, Mount Dyinaloko, 13,000 feet, Abies forest, June; one 

 male and two females, Hofuping Mountains, Mekong Valley, No- 

 vember. 



2. COTURNIX COTURNIX JAPONICA Temminck and Schlegel 



Cofurnix vulgaris japonica Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japon. Aves, 

 1849, p. 103, pi. 61 (Japan). 



One adult female, Likiang Plain at Poshaka, 8,500 feet, August. 

 A dark richly colored bird. 



3. ITHAGINIS CLARKEI Rothschild 



Ithaginis clarkei Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 40, 1920, p 67 

 (Likiang Range, Yunnan). 



Four males and one female, Likiang Mountains, 13,000 feet, May- 

 June. 



Not one of the males is exactly alike. Only one lacks red on 

 the throat and chest, though in one of the others the red on the chest 

 is much reduced. In one male the throat and chin is pronouncedly 

 tinged with red, and it even extends onto the cheeks. All the males 

 have the chest tinged more or less, with cinnamon-buff and in three 

 the forenecks and throats also. The male with the throat and cheeks 

 strongly tinged with red approaches Ithaginis rocki, but the bill is 

 larger, the crest longer and more decomposed, the forehead black, 

 and the cere (in the skin) red. The red of the throat is deeper and 

 more restricted and that of the chest reduced to more or less of a 

 trace and the cinnamon streaks on the foreneck and chest intensified 

 in Ithaginis clarkei also. The only male of Ithaginis geoffroyi avail- 

 able for comparison has much less red on the under tail coverts than 

 any of the specimens of Ithaginis clarhei before me, but the specimen 

 of the latter without any red on the throat or chest is similar. 



The male of Ithaginis clarkei has a larger, heavier bill than Itha- 

 ginis rocM^ and the cere and bare skin around the ej^e is red in 

 the skin (cream buff in rocki). The bill and cere is dull black in the 



