THAYER AND BANGS: AVES. 185 



PARUS MAJOR ARTATUS Thayer & Bangs. 



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



This recently described form occupies the very central part of China. 



Twenty-nine specimens including young and adults, were taken, at all 

 seasons of the year at Ichang, Hsientientze, Chiliping, Kwangpow, Changyang- 

 hsien, and Hsienshanhsien, Hupeh. 



PARUS MONTICOLA MONTICOLA (Vigors). 



Ten adult specimens, both sexes, from Ichang, Chetzekow, Kwangpow, 

 and Hsienshanhsien, Hupeh, and Omeihsien, Kiating, and Washan, western 

 Szechwan, all seasons. 



AEGITHALISCUS CONCINNTJS (Gould). 



Thirty specimens, young and adults, both sexes, from Ichang, Yangchiata- 

 miao, Changyanghsien, Hsienshanhsien, and Hsienshan, Hupeh, and Kiating, 

 Chienweihsien, Wushanhsien, Nanchihsien, Chungking, Luchow, and Chung- 

 chowhsien, Szechwan, all seasons. 



AEGITHALISCUS BONVALOTI (Oustalet). 



One male, not in fully mature plumage, shot at Shuowlow, western Szechwan, 

 14,000 feet altitude, August 21, 1908. 



AEGITHALISCUS FULIGINOSUS (Verreaux). 



Fourteen specimens, adults of both sexes, Hsientientze, Hsienshanhsien, 

 and Fonghsien, Hupeh, winter, and spring. 



AEGITHALUS GLAUCOGULARIS (Gould). 



Twenty specimens, adults of both sexes, from Ichang, Hupeh, taken at all 

 seasons. 



These skins are all referable to true glaucogularis and not at all to calvus 

 (Pleske) which is said to range through Szechwan to central China. 



REGULIDAE. 



SYLVIPARUS MODESTUS OCCULTUS, sub. sp. nov. 



Type: No. 50745 M. C. Z. adult 9. Western Szechwan: Kiating, 

 November 15, 1908. W. R. Zappey. 



