172 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 
Color:— Pileum mouse-gray; sides of face and neck smoke gray; back 
Mars brown; rump and upper tail-coverts drab; wings dusky margined with 
Mars brown; tail dusky narrowly edged with drab; throat and chest pale drab- 
gray; sides of breast ecru-drab; flanks and under tail-coverts drab; bill pale 
yellowish, more or less dusky at base of culmen (in dried skin). 
Summer — May 31 — specimens are like autumnal ones, except in being 
duller in colors throughout with the plumage much closer, less fluffy. 
Measurements:— Type, adult o&, wing, 58.5; tail, 77; tarsus, 22; cul- 
men, 7.5. Adult @ Topotype, No. 50748, wing, 57; tail, 79; tarsus, 22; cul- 
men, 8. 
Remarks:— This species, which we have named in honor of Mr. Zappey, 
was seen on Washan only, where it is probably resident. It occurred in fair 
numbers both in spring, and early summer, and in autumn. 
TROGLODYTIDAE. 
NANNUS TROGLODYTES SZETSCHUANUS (Hartert). 
Ten specimens, adults of both sexes and two young females. Ichang, 
Changyanghsien, and Hsienshanhsien, Hupeh, and Tachiao, and Wulungshih, 
western Szechwan, the latter at an altitude of 14,500 feet, all seasons. 
PNOEPYGA MUTICA, sp. nov. 
Plate 4, fig. 1. 
Type:— No. 51974 M. C. Z. adult #. Western Szechwan: Washan Moun- 
tain, 10,000 feet, June 3, 1908. W. R. Zappey. 
Characters:—Somewhat similar to P. squamata (Gould) of the Himalayas, 
the upper parts very similar, the under parts much darker, the dusky centres 
of the feathers much more extended and the white borders much narrower and 
nearly or quite disappearing on the feathers of the sides and flanks; the pro- 
nounced buffy suffusion of the whole under parts of P. sqwamata is, except for 
a light buffy wash on the low belly, wanting in the Washan bird. 
Color: — Whole upper parts, including wings and tail, Prout’s brown, each 
feather of the head and back with a small terminal spot of tawny; throat plain 
white; chest and breast, to middle of abdomen with each feather dusky gray 
in the middle and white around the edges, producing a regular scale-like appear- 
ance; flanks and under tail-coverts dull Prout’s brown, the feathers tipped with 
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