54 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. 70 



201. ANTHUS HODGSONI YUNNANENSIS Uchida and Kurcda 



Anthus maculatus yunnanensis Uchida and Kuroda, Annot. Zool. Jap., vol. 

 2, 1916, p. 134 (Mengtze, Yunnan). 



Four males and four females, Likiang Mountains, 11,000-13,000 

 feet, April 17-September ; one female, near Lanping, May 30; one 

 male, mountains near Yangtza, Mekong Valley, November; one 

 female, Hofuping Mountains, Mekong Valley, November. 



The above series, when compared with birds from Kamchatka, 

 eastern China, and Japan in the same stage of plumage, average 

 more heavily streaked above, especially on the head; there appears 

 to be no appreciable difference in size. While the United States 

 National Museum contains a large series of this species, most of the 

 specimens were taken on migration and are hardly comparable. 

 Breeding birds are quite grayish on the back, the olive wash of fall 

 birds almost or quite disappearing by fading. Even so, the fall 

 Yunnan birds have more yellowish in the olive of the back and are 

 more heavily streaked above. 



Two female specimens from Kansu, taken in May, have been 

 prepared with plaster which makes the plumage appear lighter than 

 it otherwise would ; making allowances for this, they appear to agree 

 with northern and eastern birds. 



Anthus hodgsoni Richmond *^ is a substitute name for Pipastes 

 maculatus Jerdon,^" preoccupied, and naturally has the same type 

 locality (India). Jerdon's type was a migrant bird; it may prove 

 the same as the Yunnan race, in which case Anthus hodgsoni her- 

 zowskii Sarudny ^^ would be available for the northern form. 



202. ANTHUS ROSEATUS Blyth 



Anthus roseatus Blyth, Jouru. As. Soe. Bengal, vol. 16, 1847, p. 437 

 (Nepal). 



One male and one female, Likiang Mountains, April 22 (12,000 

 feet) and August. 



Family ALAUDIDAE. Larks 



203. ALAUDA GULGULA COELIVOX Swinhoe 



Alauda coelivox Swinhoe, Zoologist, 1859, p. 6724 (Amoy). 

 One male, one female, and one unsexed, Likiang Mountains, 9,500- 

 10,000 feet, April 7-23 ; one unsexed, Likiang Plain, 9,000 feet, 

 April 14. 



*" Blackwelder, Research, in China, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1907, p. 493. 

 M Birds, India, vol. 3, 1864, p. 873. 

 61 Orn. Monatsb., 1909, p. 41. 



