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says the edgings to the secondaries are wider and more numerous 

 in jS. s. yunnanensis, but in the present series these are very narrow 

 and rather inconspicuous; the other differences mentioned by him 

 seem to hold and if our specimen of S. s. sphenurus is typical there 

 are other differences. The upper back is distinctly neutral gray; 

 the rump, middle tail feathers, and inner remiges not so yellowish 

 green; the under tail coverts a deeper cinnamon-buff; and there are 

 other slight differences. 



Family COLUMBIDAE. Pigeons and Doves 



10. COLUMBA LEUCONOTA LEUCONOTA Vigors 



Columba leuconota Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1831, p. 23 (Himalaya). 



Two males and two females, mountains near Yangtza, November. 



Two males from Kashmir have darker heads and browner mantles 

 when compared with the Yunnan birds. 



A series of five males and one female recently received from near 

 Tatsienlu, Szechwan, are much lighter on the mantle than the 

 Yunnan birds, and evidently belong to Columba leuconota g7'adaria 

 Hartert.^ 



11. COLUMBIA HODGSONI Vigors 



Columha Tiodgsoni Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1832, p. 16 (Nepal). 



Two males, Likiang Mountains, 13,000 feet, May 10; one male, 

 Ngaza, June. 



Family RALLIDAE. Rails, Gallinules, and Coots 



12. PORZANA BICOLOR Walden 



Porzana hicolor Walden, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 9, 1872, 

 p. 47 (Sikkim). 



One male, Likiang Plain near Lungwangmiao, 8,200 feet, August 

 22 ; two males and one female, Likiang Plain, August ; one male and 

 one female, Lanping Plain, 8,400 feet, June 3. 



I have no typical specimens for comparison. The above series 

 differ somewhat from Sharpe's description.^" 



The primaries are not externally rufescent brown but fuscous, and 

 the under tail coverts are blackish. 



13. GALLINULA CHLOROPUS PARVIFRONS Blyth 



GalUnula parvifrons Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 12, 1843, p. 180 

 (Calcutta). 



One male and one female, Chienchuan, May 29 ; one male and one 



female, Likiang Lake, 8,200 feet, August. 



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B Nov. Zool., 1916, p. 85. 



^oCat Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 23, p. 113. 



