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JuNCo siEMssENi Martciis. (Plate VI.) 



Junco siemsseni MartenSj Orn. Mouutsb. xiv. 1906, p. 192. 



Two examples, a male and female, were obtained in March 

 at Kuatun in north-west Fohkien. Only one specimen — the 

 male described by Martens, now in the Hamburg Museum — 

 was previously known. The female is here described for the 

 first time. 



Desc7'iptioa, — Male. General colour slate-blue ; axillaries, 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts pure white; a band of white 

 on the inner webs of the middle secondaries; remainder of 

 wing black, washed externally with slate- blue; rectrices, 

 except the outer pair, also black, washed externally with slate- 

 blue. Outermost rectrices with inner web white except for 

 a longish triangular apical mark. Wing 260 in. 



Female. Head and hind-neck rufous ; upper back rufous 

 brown, centre of the feathers darker, with blackish shaft- 

 stripes ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts slate- 

 grey, the feathers a good deal edged with rufous brown ; 

 Avings hair-brown, quills edged with light rufous brown and 

 coverts broadly edged and tipped with the same ; a doable bar 

 across tlie wing formed by the broad pale tips of the larger 

 and lesser wing-coverts ; axillaries white. Sides of the head 

 light rufous ; throat paler rufotis ; breast robin-red, shading 

 to rufous brown on the flanks ; tibite and lower flanks greyish 

 l)ro\vn; abdomen and under tail-coverts white; tail blackish, 

 with the central rectrices dark brownish grey; inner web of 

 the outer rectrices white, M'ith a brown shaft-stripe at the 

 ti[). Bill blackish; legs flesh-coloured. Wing 2*52 in. 



CoTiLB roHKiENENsis La Touclie. 



Cotile I'iparia Styan, Ibis, 1887, p. 227 ; La Touche, Ibis, 

 1892, p. 425, 1899, p. 430, 1906, p. 637; Rickett & 

 La Touche, Ibis, 1905, p. 45. 



Cotile fohkienensis La Touche, Bull. B.O.C. xxiii. 1908, 

 p. 17. 



Descrijition. — Adult male and female. Near C. riparia, 

 but smaller and with a nearly square tail. Uniform ])ale 

 brownish grey above, lighter on the rump. Under parts 



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