BANGS AND PHILLIPS: BIRDS FROM YUNNAN. 249 
¥ CERCHNEIS TINNUNCULUS JAPONICUS (Temminck & Schlegel). 
% 1 # and 1 2, Mengtsze, 27 Oct., 20 Nov. 
CERCHNEIS TINNUNCULUS SATURATA Blyth. 
 6specimens, Mengtsze, 11 March, 8 April, 20 July, 16 Oct., 27 Oct., 
25 Nov.. 
__ These examples are extreme of this large, very dark form, while the 
two specimens of C. t. japonicus are typical of that race. The birds 
collected in Szechwan and Hupeh by Mr. W. R. Zappey and referred 
to saturata by Thayer and Bangs, prove in the light of this material, 
to be almost exactly intermediate between saturata and japonacus. 
STRIGIDAE. 
* OTUS MALAYANA (Hay). 
17 and 1 9, adults, Mengtsze, 12 Oct., 16 Oct., 1910. 
The ¢ is in the brown phase and the ¢ in the grey. o-wing, 85; 
@ wing, 93. These birds unquestionably are referable to this 
species. 
Ingram recorded Otus lempiji erythrocampe (Swinhoe) from Mengtsze, 
| but our collection from the same place contained no Scops ow] belong- 
ing to that group of the genus. 
* NINOX SCUTULATA BURMANICA Hume. 
| 2 adults, 12, one with sex undetermined, Mengtsze, 29 July, 16 
| Oct., 1910. 
| No Ninox was listed from Yunnan by Ingram, but a specimen from 
, Quaylom, Yunnan, taken by Anderson had been recorded by Sharpe 
(Cat. birds Brit. mus., 2, p. 162). | 
|) Our two skins appear to belong to this form, which even Hartert 
(Végel Paldark. fauna) says he does not know very well. They are 
much larger than two Malacca trade skins of N. scutulata malaccensis 
i) in M.C.Z. Compared with several specimens of N. scutu- 
lata seutulata (Raffles) from the Riu Kiu Islands and the Philippines 
‘the Yunnan birds while of the same size, are of a different shade of 
|brown above and have very greyish heads. They are also somewhat 
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