190 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 



ANTHUS SPINOLETTA JAPONICUS (Temminck & Schlegel). 



Five specimens, both sexes, Ichang, Hupeh, and Washan, and Kiating, 

 western Szechwan, February, March, October, and November. 



ALAUDIDAE. 

 OTOCORIS ELWESI ELWESI Blanford. 



Three specimens, adult male and female and nestling, nearly full grown, 

 Lanerhyingpa, western Szechwan, 14,000 feet altitude, August 4, 1908. 



This horned lark was found in the high grass-lands, of what is really eastern 

 Tibet, but it must be very uncommon there, or at least local, in the breeding 

 season, as one little family only was seen. 



ALATJDA GULGULA GUTTATA Brooks. 



Thirteen specimens, adults and young of both sexes, Ichang, Tawan, and 

 Changyanghsien, Hupeh, and Lochichen, Washan, and Chiangchinghsien, Sze- 

 chwan, all seasons. 



We have compared this series with the greatest care with all material avail- 

 able including a series from Cashmir in the U. S. national museum, from which 

 our Chinese birds do not appear to differ; Alauda gulgula guttata is without 

 doubt the sky-lark of central and western China. 



CALANDRELLA BRACHYDACTYLA DUKHUNENSIS (Sykes). 



One adult male, Juchi, central Szechwan, April 20, 1908. 

 This skin, like those in the U. S. national museum, recorded from Shensi 

 by Richmond, belongs to the larger more deeply colored eastern subspecies. 



FRINGILLIDAE. 



CHLORIS 1 SINICA (Linn6). 



Sixty-two specimens, adults and young, both sexes, Ichang, and Yang- 

 chiatamiao, Hupeh, and Kiating, Washanhsien, Hochinghsien, Juchi, Chia- 

 chiang, Luchow, and Lungchi, Szechwan. All seasons. 



In the low lands this is one of the commonest of all Chinese birds, coming 

 about the houses and in the groves that surround the temples. 



1 We see no necessity for using Ligurinus for Chloris as Sharpe does in volume 5 of the Hand list. 



