- THAYER AND BANGS: AVES. 195 
We refer to this form four skins including one adult @ taken at Shanghai 
in February, 1907, one adult @ from Ituhsien, Hupeh, January 31, 1908, and 
three specimens including an adult male from Kiating, western Szechwan, taken 
in November, and December. 
EMBERIZA SPODOCEPHALA MELANOPS Blyth. 
Twenty-two specimens, Ichang, Kwangpow, Hochiaping, Changkowhsien, 
Kwatzeling, and Hsienshanhsien, Hupeh, and Washan, western Szechwan, all 
seasons. Breeding birds were taken at Kwangpow, Hochiaping, Kwatzeling, 
and near Ichang, Hupeh, and at Washan, Szechwan. At the latter place two 
nests with sets of eggs were taken, June 3, 1908, together in both cases with the 
female parent bird. It is not difficult to separate the adult male of this resident 
form from adult males of H. spodocephala spodocephala, the fore neck and breast 
of melanops are olive-green instead of gray and its belly is brighter yellow. 
Adult females can also usually be distinguished, but immature birds killed 
in winter are very puzzling and their identification is, we believe, largely empirical. 
EMBERIZA CIOIDES CASTANEICEPS Moore. 
Thirty-one specimens, both sexes, Ichang, Kwangpow, Kwatzeling, Hsien- 
shanhsien, Patunghsien, Peimuping, and Changyanghsien, Hupeh and Yiinyang- 
hsien, Wanhsien, and Washan, Szechwan, all seasons. 
EMBERIZA YUNNANENSIS Sharpe. 
Thirty-three specimens, young and adults of both sexes, Hsienshanhsien, 
Tawan, Kwangpow, Hsientientze, Changyanghsien, and Mafuling, Hupeh, and 
Tachienlu, Hwaliangmien, Washan, Luitingchiao, and Nachuka, Szechwan, all 
seasons. 
A set of eggs together with the female parent was taken at Washan, western 
Szechwan, at 6,000 feet altitude June 7, 1908, and a full-fledged nestling in spotted 
plumage was shot at Tachienlu, July 7, 1908. 
MELOPHUS MELANICTERUS (Gmelin). 
One male, Kiating, western Szechwan, November 28, 1908. One other 
individual of this species was seen but not secured. 
