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ya BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
CRYPTOLOPHA BURKII TEPHROCEPHALUS (Anderson). — 
7 specimens, Mengtsze, March, April, Oct. 
* CRYPTOLOPHA TRIVIRGATUS EIUNCIDUS, subsp. nov. 
Type, and only specimen: —adult ¢, M. C. Z., No. 61, 08 | 
Mengtsze, 16 September, 1910. 
Characters.— Similar to true C. trivirgatus (Strickland); but gener 
color of underparts very much paler and brighter yellow, clear icra on 
yellow on throat and chin; sides of head clearer and paler yellow; 
the black stripes on the top of the head narrower anteriorly; gen era 
color of upper parts more yellowish and less greenish; rump and v upp 
tail coverts especially so. 
Measurements: wing, 55, tarsus, 17, exposed culmen, 9. 
STOPAROLA MELANOPS (Vigors). 
~ 13 specimens, Mengtsze, March, April, July, Aug., Sept., Oe 
Loukouchai, June. 
CAMPOPHAGIDAE. 
_ PERICROCOTUS BREVIROSTRIS ETHOLOGUS, subsp. nov. 
17 specimens, both sexes, Mengtsze, Feb., March, April, July, Sey 
Shi-ping Feb.; Loukouchai, Dec. q 
On comparison of a large series of specimens it seems best to divi 
P. brevirostris (Vigors) into three subspecies, based on the colorat: 
of the adult male plumage. The forms are about alike in size, ¢ 
the females of the three are rather similar. Oates (Fauna of Brill 
India), has already alluded to the differences in color shown by t 
two Indian forms. The Chinese is quite different from either and has 
the under wing coverts and axillars nearly as yellow as in Pericrocotus 
igneus Blyth although otherwise not in the least like that species. 4 
Vigors’s description and Gould’s figure, both based on the sat 
specimens, clearly were taken from the eastern form of intense colora- 
tion; M’Clelland’s P. affinis is synonymous. Ver 
The Yunnan skins are not typical of the Chinese form as d ell hed 
below, and though nearer to it than to true P. brevirostris are in 
