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Adult birds from Yunnan, when laid out in series, average 

 darker below with more heavily barred outer tail feathers than speci- 

 mens from Chihli or eastern China although a few individual birds 

 from northern or eastern China approach them. The width of the 

 white bars on the outer tail feathers shows a tendency to an increase 

 in northern birds, but it is not constant ; in specimens from Yunnan 

 the heavy black barring on the outer tail feathers is apparently uni- 

 form, judging by the series in the United States National Museum. 

 The Kansu specimens are somewhat intermediate between northern 

 and Yunnan skins, but probably on the whole nearer the latter in 

 the barring of the outer tail feathers. 



61. YUNGIPICUS SCmXILLICEPS SCINTILLICEPS (Swinhoe) 

 Pious sointilUoeps Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 96 (Peking). 



Two males and six females. Eastern Tombs, Chihli, December 9- 

 January 5. 



It seems to me that Yungipicus scintilliceps is not a form of senii- 

 coronatus or mitchellii { = 'pygniaeus of authors), but had better be 

 kept distinct; it contains several valid forms. 



62. JYNX TORQUILLA JAPONICA Bonaparte 



Yuwx. japonica Bonapaete, Consp. Gen. Av., vol. 1, 1850, p. 112 (Japan). 



One male and four females, Kansu (45 miles northwest of 

 Ninghsia, May 10; 15 miles east-southeast of, July 10; 100 miles 

 south of, August 27; and 120 miles south of Lanchow, July 26). 



Family ALAUDIDAE 



LARES 



63. OTOCORIS ALPESTRIS BRANDTI Dresser 



Otocorys Irandti Dressek, Birds Europe, vol. 4, 1874, pp. 397, 402, (Kirgisen- 

 Steppe). 



One male, 92 miles northwest of Paotow, Inner Mongolia, April 2 ; 

 1 male, 15 miles northwest (Holanshan Mountains), May 12; 1 male, 

 30 miles west, June 1, 1 male, 45 miles northwest, May 5, and 1 

 male, 105 miles north-northwest of Ninghsia, April 24; 1 male, 65 

 miles north, June 17, and 2 immature males and 2 immature females 

 90-100 miles southwest of Lanchow, Kansu, August 28-September 1. 



The adults in the above series agree fairly well with two specimens^ 

 from the Russian Altai, except the wing seems to be shorter. 



