182 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 
HORORNIS FORTIPES DAVIDIANA (Verreaux). 
Hight specimens, adults of both sexes and one young male, Ichang, Hsien- 
tientze, Hsienshanhsien, and Changyanghsien, Hupeh, and Kiating, Szechwan. 
All seasons; breeding specimens at high altitudes only, from 5,000 to 5,500 feet. 
NEORNIS ACANTHIZOIDES ACANTHIZOIDES (Verreaux). 
Wight specimens, adults of both sexes, Kiating, Washan, and Chungchow- 
hsien, western Szechwan, winter, spring and summer. 
NEORNIS FLAVOLIVACEA INTRICATUS Hartert. 
Four specimens, adults of both sexes, Washan, Tachienlu, Yachiakun, and 
Lianghokow, western Szechwan, 10,000 to 13,000 feet, midsummer. 
NEORNIS CANTANS CANTURIANUS (Swinhoe). 
One adult male, Hsientientze, Hupeh, 5,500 feet, June 2, 1907. 
SuYA CRINIGERA Hodgson. 
Eight specimens, both sexes, Hsienshan, Nanyangho, and Patunghsien, 
Hupeh, and Kiating, Chinkowno, and Nashanhsien, Szechwan. This series 
includes skins in spring and summer plumage with black bills and comparatively 
short tails; and also examples taken in autumn and winter with pale bills, 
comparatively long tails, and considerably more reddish brown above with 
dusky markings on the throat and breast. 
PRINIA INORNATA EXTER, sub. sp. nov. 
Plate 5, figs. 4-5. 
Six specimens, adults of both sexes, Nanchihsien, Hokow, and Kiating, 
Szechwan, spring, autumn, and winter. 
Type:— No. 52580 M. C. Z. adult @ in breeding plumage. Western 
Szechwan: Hokow, May 4, 1908. W. R. Zappey. 
By far the darkest race of P. inornata. In summer plumage 
Characters: 
the upper parts are of a shade about between olive and hair-brown; the under 
parts strong buff. In winter plumage the upper parts vary from tawny olive 
to raw umber and the under parts are clay color. It is therefore a very much 
darker bird than either P. ‘nornata inornata Sykes of India or P. inornata exten- 
