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83. MICROSCELIS PSAROIDES CONCOLOR (Blyth) 



Hypsipetes concolor Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, 1850, p. 

 816 (Tenasserim). 



Two adults (unsexed), between Hsia-yang:tsim and Chienchuan 

 (pine forest), March 30; one male, pine forest northwest of Sha- 

 yangching, 8,900 feet. May 30; one male and one female, Forest of 

 Ngaza, west of Likiang Mountains, 8,600 feet, June; one male be- 

 tween Lochming and Lamping, 9,000 feet, June; one immature 

 female, Hofuping Mountains, Mekong Valley, November. 



The above series has been compared with two males and two 

 females from south Annam, collected by Kloss. The Annam birds 

 are clearer, darker gray below, but the Yunnan series is more worn 

 and faded and hardly comparable. 



The immature listed above may or may not be this species. It is 

 black, almost glossless; the throat and foreneck lightly frosted 

 with white; breast, belly, and under tail coverts white, streaked 

 with black; middle wing coverts narrowly tipped Avith yellowish 

 white; under wing coverts and a narrow border on the inner webs 

 of the remiges white ; upper tail coverts white stippled rather heavily 

 Avith black. The bill (in the dried skin), blackish above, brownish 

 (below). 



This is entirely distinct from the black phase of Microscelis leu- 

 cocephal'us^ to which the present species is very closely related. If 

 not the immature plumage of Microscelis p. concolor (of which I 

 have seen no description), I do not know where to place it. 



84. MOLPASTES HAEMORRHOUS NIGRIPILEUS (Blyth) 



Pycnonotus nigripileus Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 16, 1847, 

 p. 472 (Tenasserim). 



One male betAveen Chugai and Kantingai, 6,000 feet, Sahveen 

 Valley, March 14. 



This specimen has the black of the throat very restricted, not even 

 extending onto the foreneck. It has apparently not been reported 

 from Yunnan before. 



85. PYCNONOTUS AURIGASTER XANTHORHOUS Anderson 



Pycnonotus xarithorhous Andehison, Proc. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1869, p. 265 

 (Manwyne, Yunnan). 



One, Huigai, March 11 ; one male, between Kantingai and Musan- 

 lin, Salween Valley, March 15 ; one male, Wamangai and Tsao 

 Chiang, March 17 ; one male, Feilung Chiao, Mekong Valley, March 

 20; one female, Yiinlung, March 22; one male and one female, 

 Nguluko, 9,400 feet, Likiang Mountains, April 5. 



