200 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 



much more flattened especially basally; nasal tufts less copious and more bristly; 

 tarsus relatively longer. 



Color: Wholly dark gray with black wings, tail, and head; bill mostly 

 dull green. 



BOANERGES INTERNIGRANS, sp. nov. 

 Plate 6. 



Six specimens, adults of both sexes, Shuowlow, western Szechwan, 14,000 

 feet, August 22 and 23, 1908. 



Type: No. 52587 M. C. Z. adult cf. Western Szechwan: Shuowlow, 

 14,000 feet, August 23, 1908. W. R. Zappey. 



Color: Head, including cheeks and chin, wings, and tail dull black ; rest 

 of body dull grayish slate color, the breast and chest somewhat flecked with 

 black; bill dull light greenish, darker at base and along sides of culmen; tarsus 

 and foot black. 



Measurements: Type, adult cf, wing, 167; tail, 161; tarsus, 42.5; 

 culmen, 26. No. 52591, adult 9, topotype, wing, 165; tail, 155; tarsus, 

 40.5; culmen, 24. 



Remarks: Mr. Zappey met with this remarkable species only at Shuowlow 

 where he found it in small numbers in the coniferous forest, behaving exactly, 

 he tells us, like the Canada jay of North America. 



PYRRHOCORAX PYRRHOCORAX (Linn6). 



Eleven specimens, adults of both sexes and young, Tachienlu, and Cheto, 

 western Szechwan, 9,000 to 12,000 feet, summer. 



The Chough was abundant in the high mountains in western Szechwan 

 but was not met with in Hupeh. 



GRACULUS GRACULUS (Linn6). 



Four adult males, Tachienlu, and Yachiakun, western Szechwan, 14,000 to 

 15,000 feet, summer. 



The Alpine chough was decidedly rarer than the last species and occurred 

 only at greater altitudes, from 14,000 feet or thereabouts, upward; still at these 

 lofty elevations it was constantly seen flying about like a swallow and now and 

 then settling in the villages to feed on Yak excrement. 



