182 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 



HORORNIS FORTIPES DAVioiANA (Verreaux). 



Eight specimens, adults of both sexes and one young male, Ichang, Hsien- 

 tientze, Hsienshanhsien, and Changyanghsien, Hupeh, and Kiating, Szechwan. 

 All seasons; breeding specimens at high altitudes only, from 5,000 to 5,500 feet. 



NEORNIS ACANTHIZOIDES ACANTHIZOIDES (Verreaux). 



Eight specimens, adults of both sexes, Kiating, Washan, and Chungchow- 

 hsien, western Szechwan, winter, spring and summer. 



NEORNIS FLAVOLIVACEA INTRICATUS Hartert. 



Four specimens, adults of both sexes, Washan, Tachienlu, Yachiakun, and 

 Lianghokow, western Szechwan, 10,000 to 13,000 feet, midsummer. 



NEORNIS CANTANS CANTURIANUS (Swinhoe). 

 One adult male, Hsientientze, Hupeh, 5,500 feet, June 2, 1907. 



SUYA CRINIGERA HodgSOn. 



Eight specimens, both sexes, Hsienshan, Nanyangho, and Patunghsien, 

 Hupeh, and Kiating, Chinkowno, and Nashanhsien, Szechwan. This series 

 includes skins in spring and summer plumage with black bills and comparatively 

 short tails; and also examples taken in autumn and winter with pale bills, 

 comparatively long tails, and considerably more reddish brown above with 

 dusky markings on the throat and breast. 



PRINIA INORNATA EXTER, sub. sp. nov. 

 Plate 5, figs. 4-5. 



Six specimens, adults of both sexes, Nanchihsien, Hokow, and Kiating, 

 Szechwan, spring, autumn, and winter. 



Type: No. 52580 M. C. Z. adult cf in breeding plumage. Western 

 Szechwan: Hokow, May 4, 1908. W. R. Zappey. 



Characters: By far the darkest race of P. inornata. In summer plumage 

 the upper parts are of a shade about between olive and hair-brown; the under 

 parts strong buff. In winter plumage the upper parts vary from tawny olive 

 to raw umber and the under parts are clay color. It is therefore a very much 

 darker bird than either P. inornata inornata Sykes of India or P. inornata exten- 



