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ish line posteriorly; throat, chest, and lower ear-coverts fuscous or 

 blackish, the feathers of the chest tipped with white; breast smoke 

 gray, the feathers tipped with white; belly white; sides, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts like the back or a little lighter, the feathers with a 

 narrow subterminal black bar and white tip ; sides of neck the color 

 of the back with small white spots; wing coverts like the back and 

 with similar spots ; alula dark gull gray with a small white tip to the 

 feathers; primary coverts black tipped with white; six outer pri- 

 maries, deep gull gray on the inner and outer web, black along the 

 shaft, part of the inner web, and subterminally, the tip white; the 

 seventh primary becoming brown basally on the outer and this color 

 increasing inwardly until the secondaries become wholly brown on 

 the outer web, black on the inner and subterminally, tipped with 

 white ; the tertials wholly brown with a subterminal black bar and 

 white tip ; middle tail feathers like the back in color with a sub- 

 terminal black bar and narrow white tips; outer tail-feather deep 

 gull gray, with a broad subterminal black bar and white tip ; the 

 second outer tail feather becoming brown basally and this color in- 

 creasing inwardly until the middle feathers are reached ; all the tail 

 feathers have the black subterminal bar and white tip, but con- 

 siderably reduced on the middle pair. 



Remarks. — In some specimens the chest is the color of the back 

 with a narrow black subterminal black bar and white tip ; in fact, the 

 birds with the chest fuscous or blackish with white tips to the 

 feathers seem to be the rarer of the two. 



The series measures as follows: Five males, wing, 109-120 (112.7) ; 

 tail, 135-140 (138) ; culmen, 26-28 (26.8) ; and three females, wing, 

 109-112 (110.3); tail, 133-139.5 (136.5); culmen, 25.5-27 (26.2). 



95. POMATORHINUS KUFICOLLIS BAKERI Harington 



Pomatorhinus ruficollis halceri HAPaNGTON, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 

 vol. 23, 1914, p. 336 (Shillong). 



Three males and eight females from : Tengyueh, 5,300 feet, March 

 7; Likiang Mountains, June and August; Ngaza, east of Likiang 

 Mountains, June; Hofuping Mountains, Mekong Vallej^, November. 



This series is quite uniform in color and aA^erages larger and lighter 

 than a series from Suifu, Szechwan {Pomatorhinus ruficollis styani). 

 One male and two females from Fukien and Hunan are slightly 

 smaller and much darker than Szechwan specimens and represent 

 Pomatorhinus ruficollis stridulus. From the evidence at hand there 

 are at least three recognizable mainland races of this species in 

 China, namely : Pomatorhinus ruficollis l)akei% Harington (Assam 

 to western Yunnan), Pomatorhinus ruficollis stridulus Swinhoe 

 (southeast China), and Pomatorhinus ruficollis styard Seebohm 

 (Yangtze Valley). 



