174 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 



OREOCINCLA AUREA (Holandre). 

 One adult male, Ichang, Hupeh, April 30, 1907. 



OREOCINCLA DAUMA SOCIA, sub. sp. nov. 



Two specimens, male and female adults, Tachienlu; western Szechwan, 

 9,000 feet, September 28, 1908. 



Type: No. 51177 M. C. Z. adult cf. Western Szechwan: Tachienlu, 

 9,000 feet, September 28, 1908. W. R. Zappey. 



Characters: -Similar to true 0. dauma (Latham) of the Himalayas, and 

 with twelve tail-feathers; but smaller, much darker in general coloration, with 

 all the black markings of the feathers wider and the ochraceous markings nar- 

 rower;, underparts more ochraceous or buff-yellow, less whitish; under tail- 

 coverts wholly buff -yellow; pileum much darker, the feathers, except for the 

 ochraceous spot on each, black instead of brown. 



Measurements: Type, adult cf, wing 138; tail, 95.5; tarsus, 34.5; culmen, 

 22. Adult 9 No. 51176. Topotype, wing, 135; tail, 90; tarsus, 32; culmen, 22. 



Remarks: Like so many other Himalayan birds, Oreocincla dauma has a 

 well-marked subspecies in the high mountains of western China. It must be 

 either very rare or very retiring in its habits as Mr. Zappey saw but the two 

 collected and we can not find that any other collector has ever taken it in this 

 general region or in eastern Tibet where it should also occur. 



TURDUS CARDIS LATEUS Thayer & Bangs. 

 Bull. M. C. Z., May, 1909, 62, p. 140. 







Four specimens, three adult males and a young male in nestling plumage, 

 Ichang, Hupeh, April, June, and July. 



This subspecies which is a well-marked form, easily separated from true T. 

 cardis of Japan, was found only at Ichang where it was breeding. Mr. Zappey 

 was away from Ichang in May, otherwise from April to July he occasionally 

 saw or heard this thrush. He states that he might easily have secured additional 

 specimens had he anticipated that it would not occur elsewhere. 



TURDUS NAUMANNI (Temminck). 



Twenty-eight specimens, Ichang, Ituhsien, and Changyanghsien, Hupeh, 

 winter, and early spring. 



