THAYER AND BANGS: AVES. 139 
lacks the black breast patch of true hodgsoniae; the other supposed color char- 
acters appear to be very variable. 
CorurnIx Japonica (Temminck «& Schlegel). 
Twenty specimens, both sexes, Ichang, and Changyanghsien, western Hupeh, 
autumn, and April. 
This series is entirely referable to this very distinct species. Some young 
males have a little black on the throat, but they show the long lanceolate throat 
feathers. Some young females show the elongate throat feathers very slightly, 
but otherwise are exactly like more adult females that show this character very 
plainly. 
BaMBUSICOLA THORACTICA (Temminck). 
Four adult males, Kiating, Chungking, and Yachow, western Szechwan, 
November, and December. 
ITHAGENES GEOFFROYI Verreaux. 
Hight specimens, seven adults of both sexes, and one young male less than 
half grown were taken at Tachienlu, Tongolow, Shuowlow, Ramala Pass, 
and Kaoerhshan, western Szechwan, at altitudes ranging from 12,000 to 15,500 
feet, in July, and’ August. 
The young male, Tachienlu, 12,000 feet, July 19, 1908, has the head and 
nape blackish ashy, and the body feathers with conspicuous pale shaft-stripes; 
the eray tail feathers and pointed red tail-coverts of the adult plumage are just 
beginning to show. 
ITHAGENES WILSONI, sp. nov. 
Two adult males, Washan, western Szechwan, 9,000 feet altitude, No- 
vember 2, 1908. 
Type:— No. 52366 M. C. Z. adult @. Western Szechwan: Washan Moun- 
tain, 9,000 feet, November 2, 1908. . W. R. Zappey. 
Characters:— Similar in general to [. geoffroyi but about one third smaller. 
In color the Washan bird does not differ radically from J. geoffroyi, though 
there are some slight variances; the tail in J. wilsoni is rather darker ashy; 
and the white shaft-lines on the back, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts are wider. 
