172 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 



Color: Pileum mouse-gray; sides of face and neck smoke gray; back 

 Mars brown; rump and upper tail-coverts drab; wings dusky margined with 

 Mars brown; tail dusky narrowly edged with drab; throat and chest pale drab- 

 gray; sides of breast ecru-drab; flanks and under tail-coverts drab; bill pale 

 yellowish, more or less dusky at base of culmen (in dried skin). 



Summer May 31 specimens are like autumnal ones, except in being 

 duller in colors throughout with the plumage much closer, less fluffy. 



Measurements: Type, adult a", wing, 58.5; tail, 77; tarsus, 22; cul- 

 men, 7.5. Adult 9 Topotype, No. 50743, wing, 57; tail, 79; tarsus, 22; cul- 

 men, 8. 



Remarks: This species, which we have named in honor of Mr. Zappey, 

 was seen on Washan only, where it is probably resident. It occurred in fair 

 numbers both in spring, and early summer, and in autumn. 



TROGLODYTIDAE. 



NANNUS TROGLODYTES SZETSCHTJANUS (Hartert). 



Ten specimens, adults of both sexes and two young females. Ichang, 

 Changyanghsien, and Hsienshanhsien, Hupeh, and Tachiao, and Wulungshih, 

 western Szechwan, the latter at an altitude of 14,500 feet, all seasons. 



PNOEPYGA MUTICA, sp. nov. 

 Plate 4, fig. 1. 



Type: No. 51974 M. C. Z. adult d 1 . Western Szechwan: Washan Moun- 

 tain, 10,000 feet, June 3, 1908. W. R. Zappey. 



Characters: Somewhat similar to P. squamata (Gould) of the Himalayas, 

 the upper parts very similar, the under parts much darker, the dusky centres 

 of the feathers much more extended and the white borders much narrower and 

 nearly or quite disappearing on the feathers of the sides and flanks; the pro- 

 nounced buffy suffusion of the whole under parts of P. squamata is, except for 

 a light buffy wash on the low belly, wanting in the Washan bird. 



Color: Whole upper parts, including wings and tail, Prout's brown, each 

 feather of the head and back with a small terminal spot of tawny; throat plain 

 white; chest and breast, to middle of abdomen with each feather dusky gray 

 in the middle and white around the edges, producing a regular scale-like appear- 

 ance; flanks and under tail-coverts dull Prout's brown, the feathers tipped with 



