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212. PASSER RUTILANS INTENSIOR Rothschild 



Passer rutilans intensior Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 43, 1922, 

 p. 11 (Mekong Valley Yunnan). 



Eight males and three females from Tenoyueh, 5,300 feet, March 

 7; Yangtze Gorge, 4,600 feet, May 17; between Likiang and Tiii 

 nakou, 9,000 feet. May 18; Likiang Mountains, 10,000-12,000 feet. 

 June and August; Tseh Chung Mountains, November. 



213. HAEMATOSPIZA INDICA (Gmelin) 



Loxia indica Gmelin, Sys. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 847 (India). 

 One female, Likiang Mountains, 11,000 feet, June. 



214. CARPODACUS ERYTHRINUS ROSEATUS (Hodgson) 



PyrrhuUnota roseata Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1845, p. 36 (Nepal). 



Two males, five females, and one immature male, Likiang Moun- 

 tains, 10,000-13,000 feet. May and June; between Likiang and Tui- 

 nakou, 10,000 feet, May 16. 



215. CARPODACUS THURA FEMININUS Rippon 



Carpodacus femminus Rippon, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club., vol. 19, 1906, p. 31 

 (Yangtze River, W. Yunnan). 



A good series of both sexes, Likiang Moimtains, 10,000-15,000 feet, 

 April-August; Bayiwua, east of Likiang Mountains, 11,000 feet, 

 June; near Ndagu, 9,600 feet, Yantze Valley, April 28; Hofuping 

 Mountains, Mekong Valley, November; Lapsshan- Yangtze water- 

 shed (Lantiolo), February. 



This is not a very well-marked race. Three males from Kansu 

 (the type locality of Carpodacus duhius Przewalski) are smaller than 

 our Yunnan birds, but birds from western Szechwan are interme- 

 diate. They probably will have to be assigned to the northern form, 

 however. 



216. CARPODACUS PULCHERRIMUS PULCHERRIMUS (Moore) 



Propasser pulcherrima Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, p. 216 (Nepal). 



One male and three females, Likiang Mountains, 11,000 feet; 

 April 16-17; one female, Lapsshan- Yangtze watershed (Lantiolo), 

 February. 



A small series of males from the mountains of western Szechwan 

 are darker above with a pinkish tinge to the plumage lacking in the 

 single Yunnan male; the latter is also more pinkish, not so reddish 

 below, but the Szechwan birds are breeding specimens. The Szech- 

 wan series average smaller. The single male listed above looks very 

 much like the plate of Propasser wultoni Sharpe in the Ibis (1906, 

 pi. 16), and may belong to that race. Rothschild,^^ however, with 

 more ample material identifies his specimens as of this race. 



''Nov. Zool., vol. 30, 1923, p. 55. 



