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191. ZOSTEROPS PALPEBROSA PALPEBROSA (Tcmminck) 



Sylvia palpeirosa Temminck, PI. Col., pi. 293. fig. 3, 1924 (Bengal). 



One female, between Kantingai and Muanglei, Sahveen Valley, 

 March 15 ; one male and two females, between Yiinlung and Tanten, 

 March 23 ; one male, without locality or date. 



The birds in this series are smaller and much darker, both above 

 and below, than the series identified above as simplex^ and represent 

 evidently a well-marked form, but what name to use for it is rather 

 difficult to determine. Zosterops mussoti Oustalet,*^ Rothschild ^'^ 

 says is only a synonym of simplex; Zosterops setschuana Reichenow '^'^ 

 is evidently only a renaming of Zosterops mussoti^ having the same 

 type locality. Even if mussoti should prove separable, the present 

 form can not well be it, for the series I have identified as shnplex 

 would come in between. Most likely it belongs to one of the Burma 

 forms, as it comes from near the western border of Yunnan, and the 

 series agrees better with Indian specimens than with those from 

 further east in China, but my series of Indian birds is unsatisfac- 

 tory. Most of the Indian specimens are brighter, but there are one 

 or tAvo that match west Yunnan birds very Avell; they are without 

 definite localities, however. 



Family DICAEIDAE. Flower-peckers 



192. DICAEUM IGNIPECTUS IGNIPECTUS (Blyth) 



Mysantlie igmpectus Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 12, 1843, p. 

 983 (Nepal and Bhutan). 



One male and one female, between Tuinakou and Likiang, 8,300- 

 9,000 feet. May 18 ; one male, between Yulo and Nguluko, west slopes 

 of Likiang Mountains, May 24. 



193. PACHYGLOSSA MELANOZANTHA Blyth 



PacJiyglossa melanosantha Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 12, 1843, 

 p. 1010 (Nepal). 



A fine series of adults from various stations in the Likiang Moun- 

 tains, 13,000 feet, May-July. 



Family NECTARINIIDAE. Sun Birds 



194. AETHOPYGA DABRYII DABRYII (Verreaux) 



Nectarinia dabryii Verreaux, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1867, p. 173, pi. 15 

 (Szechwan). 



A good series of adult males and females between Failungchiao 

 and Yiinlung, March 21; Likiang Mountains (various stations), 

 9,000-12,000 feet, April-July. 



*5Ai!n. Sci. Nat. (Zool.), ser. 7, vol. 12, 1891, p. 289. 

 <« Nov. Zool., vol. 28, 1921, p. 57. 

 *^ Journ. f. Orn., 1915, p. 125. 



