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■flavirostris cucullata. The blue of the wings and tail externally is 

 much darker and more purplish ; the back of an entirely different 

 color, dark olive-buff with a dark madder blue sheen, and blue hardly 

 showing in certain lights and the olive-buff almost disappearing in 

 others ; the lining of the wings and tail is olive-ocher ; tips to the tail 

 feathers, pinkish-buff ; and there are other differences. 



Sharpe,''^ however, evidently had similar specimens from Kashmir 

 which he considered to be in immature plumages. The above Yun- 

 nan specimen appears to be adult, but if not, it would be rather 

 unique for the immature of a species of Corvidae to have a distinctive 

 first winter plumage. 



243. GARRULUS BISPECULARIS SINENSIS Swinhoe 



Oarrulus sinensis Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863. p. 304 (Canton to 

 Ningpo). 



Two males and one female, Likiang Mountains, July; one female, 

 Ashi Road, banks of Yangtze, July; one male, Litiping Mountains, 

 Yangtze Divide, November; one female and one unsexed, Hofuping 

 Mountains, Mekong Valley, November; one male and one female, 

 forests of Mill, southwest Szechwan, February. 



This series when compared with Fukien birds averages grayer on 

 the mantle and a little more rufescent on the head. The differences 

 are slight and inconstant, and hardly warrant recognition by name. 



244, PYRRHOCORAX PYRRHOCORAX HIMALAYANUS (Gould) 



Fregihis himalayanus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862, p. 125 (Hima- 

 layas). 



Three adult males and four unsexed adults, Likiang Mountains, 

 9,800-11,000 feet, April, August, and September. 



The United States National Museum contains a good series of the 

 chough from western Szechwan, a small series from Kansu and Inner 

 Mongolia, a small series from Kashmir, but few from Europe. 



The series from Yunnan and western Szechwan seem to be the 

 same and are uniformly larger with much larger bills than the Euro- 

 pean bird. Kansu and Inner Mongolian specimens are smaller with 

 smaller bills than Yunnan birds and belong to Pyrrhocorax p. 

 hrachypus Swinhoe. 



The Kashmir bird is smaller than P. p. hiTnalayamus, but somewhat 

 larger than Kansu specimens, the differences are slight and for the 

 present they may be assigned to Pyrrhocoraoo p. hrachypus rather 

 than Pyrrhocorax p. pyrrhocorax^ which is a somewhat smaller race. 



6^ Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1877, p. 73. 



