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221. PROPYRRHULA SUBHIMACHALA INTENSIOR Rothschild 



Propyrrhula subhimachala intemior Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 

 vol. 43, 1922, p. 12 (Likiang Range). 

 One adult male and one adult female. Likiang Mountains, 13,000- 

 15,000 feet, May 10. 



222. EMBERIZA PUSILLA Pallas 



Emberiza pusilla Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs, vol. 3, 1776, p. 697 (Daurian 

 Alps). 

 One adult (not sexed), Huigai, March 11. 



223. EMBERIZA ELEGANS ELEGANTULA Swinhoe 



Emberiza elegantula Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1870, p. 134 (near 

 Kweichow, Hupeh). 



One male between Feilung-chiao and Yiinlung, March 21; one 

 male, no definite locality, March 26; two males, two females, and 

 two unsexed, Likiang Mountains, 9,400-11,000 feet, May-June; one 

 female, dense fore.st between Shayang and Xanchu Plain, 9,500 feet. 

 May 30; one male, mountains of Tseh Chung, Mekong Valley, Xo- 

 vember. 



These all belong to one form, apparently. Compared with April 

 specimens of Emberiza elegans sihirica Sushkin,^*' from Korea and 

 Chili, the Yunnan series is darker above, especially on the hind 

 neck, where the streaks are black and broad, in one specimen (No. 

 297507), May 3, almost hiding the slate gray edges to the feathers; 

 the nape more extensively black; the streaks on the flanks blackish 

 rather than russet. In E. e. sihirica the hind neck is pale neutral 

 gray, the dark streaks sparse, this difference, without any others, 

 make the two races stand out quite distinctly when viewed from 

 above. I have seen no specimens from Japan. The only specimens 

 available from Hupeh are a winter-taken pair; the male with a 

 smaller wing and tail than the November specimen from Tseh 

 Chung. The latter has darker and broader streaks above ; the hind- 

 neck deeper and more extensively gray, and the nape more ex- 

 tensively black. The Hupeh specimens are probably only the north- 

 ern race. 



The National Museum has several breeding birds from Szechwan 

 (Mount Omei, east of Tatsienlu and 25 miles west of Yachow). 

 The Mount Omei specimens are very poor; in fact, the only fair 

 skin is a male from east of Tatsienlu, June 19. It is paler above than 

 the Yunnan series but still much darker than northern birds. A 

 male from Mount Omei and a female from west of Yachow are very 

 dark but very much worn. 



"•Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. .38, No. 1, 1925, p. 29. 



