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217. CARPODACUS VINACEUS Verreaux 



Carpodacus vinacctis Vekreia.ux, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. 6, Bull. 1870, 

 p. 39 (Mountains of Chinese Tibet). 



Three females, Likiang Mountains, June and July. 



218. CARPODACUS TRIFASCIATUS Verreaux 



Carpodacus trifasciatus Vekreaux, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. 6, Bull. 

 1870, p. 39 (Mountains of Chinese Tibet). 



One fine adult male, Likiang Mountains, 14,000-15,000 feet, 

 April 16. 



219. CARPODACUS RIPPONI (Sharpe) 



Propasser rtpponi Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 13, 1902, p. 11 (Gyi- 

 dzin-shan, W. Yunnan). 



Five males and three females, Likiang Mountains, 9,500-12,000 

 feet, April 23-September ; one male, Hofuping Mountains, Mekong 

 Valley, November; one immature unsexed, Tseh Chung Mountains, 

 Mekong Valley, November. 



An immature female, an immature male, and the unsexed imma- 

 ture in the above series are darker above, much more brownish 

 below, than the adult female, and the supraauricular stripe is ochra- 

 ceous, not whitish. The unsexed specimen is particularly dark, but 

 the stripes below are narrower than in the immature marked as a 

 male; it verj^ likely is of the same sex, but slightly older. 



220. PYRRHULA ERITHACA ALTERA Rippon 



PijrrhuU altera Rippon, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 19, 1906, p. 19 (Shayang, 

 W. Yunnan). 



One male near the Burma border without definite locality, March 

 25; four males and nine females, Likiang Mountains, 12,000-13,000 

 feet, May-September. 



The male from the Burma border is somewhat smaller, the red 

 below darker and extending up the throat around the black chin 

 spot; it is probably P. e. erithaca or an intermediate, but for the 

 present I prefer to list it as above. 



An adult male and female recently received from Kansu (120 

 miles south of Lanchow) are smaller and the female considerably 

 lighter than Yunnan birds; they evidently represent Pyrrhula 

 erithaca taipaishanensis Rothschild.^* The type of Pyrrhula erithaca 

 vdlderi Riley ®^ is darker, especially on the head, and has a smaller 

 bill than the Kansu female. 



"Nov. Zool., vol. 28, 1921, p. 63. 



=5 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 31, 1918, p. 33. 



