Vol. XXIV, pp. 43-44 February 24, 1911 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF TH !: 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW DRYONASTES FROM CHINA. 

 BY J. H. KIJUEY. 



[By permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.] * 



In a small lot of birds collected by Arthur de C. Sowerby in 

 the provinces of Shansi and Shensi, China, there is a single 

 specimen resembling Dn/onaxtes perspidllatus but paler through- 

 out and in my opinion represents a recognizable geographical 

 race. It may be known from the following description: 



Dryonastes perspicillatus shensiensis subsp. nov. 



Tyiie, No. 212,0<>7, Collection of the U. S. National Museum. Adult 

 male. Fifteen miles south of Si-an-fu, Shensi, China, 1,500 feet altitude, 

 February 2S, 1 <)(.)!). Collected by Arthur de C. Sowerby. 



Subspedfic character*. Similar to Dryonastes p. perspicillatus GMELIX 

 of south and south-east China, but much paler both above and below and 

 with the feathers of the throat and neck with a mere indication of a dark 

 shaft-streak. 



Description. Forehead, supra-orbital, lores, and auriculars, black, 

 forming a mask; crown, cervix, and occiput smoke gray, deepening into 

 brownish on the upper back, all the feathers with very narrow edgings 

 and indistinct shaft-streaks of hair brown; back and rump broccoli 

 brow T n; upper tail-coverts Isabella color; throat, jugulum, and sides of 

 neck, smoke gray, the feathers of the throat and jugulum with hardly 

 perceptible dusky shaft-streaks; breast, abdomen, and wing-lining, pink- 

 ish butt'; thighs buff; crissum ochraceous ; car po-metacarpal bordered 

 with clove brown; wings externally color of the back; the primaries and 

 secondaries blackish on the inner web and then edged with huffy towards 

 the base of the feathers; tail wood brown, all the feathers broadly tipped 

 with black, except the middle pair, the black increasing towards the outer 

 pair where it occupies about half the feather and extends some distance 

 up the outer web. Wing, 1-H; tail, loo; eulmen, 21. o; tarsus, 41. o; 

 middle toe, 2o.5 mm. 



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