ART. 15 BIRDS COLLECTED IN CENTRAL CHINA ^RILEY 21 



Pseudopodoces humilis is a small bird with a superficial resemblance 

 to a lark. It is much smaller than the members of the other two 

 genera mentioned above. 



There are no typical P. humilis available for comparison and P. h. 

 saxicola is here recognized on geographic grounds, the series being 

 practically topotypic. 



Family PARIDAE 



TITMICE 



85. PARUS MAJOR ARTATUS Thayer and Bangs 



Parus major artatus Thayee and Bangs, Bull. Mus. Oomp. Zool., vol. 52, 1909, 

 p. 140 (Ichang, Hupeh, China). 



Two males and one female, Eastern Tombs, Chihli, December 

 12-20. 



In one male the black on the inner web of the outer tail feather 

 occupies about half the web; in the other it is much reduced. 



Ornithologists owe a debt of gratitude to La Touche ^° for straight- 

 ening out the forms of this species occurring in eastern China. 



86. PARUS MAJOR TIBETANUS Hartert 



Parus major tibetanus Haeteet, Vogel palaark. Fauna, vol. 1, pt. 3, 1905, 

 p. 346 (Chaksam, Tsongpo Valley, Tibet). 



Two males and two females, 120 miles south of Lanchow, Kansu, 

 August 8-11. 



These are all young birds, too young for correct determination. 

 The tail is about two-thirds grown; the outer feather with only a 

 narrow black border basally on the inner web. 



No adult specimens from the type locality (Tatsienlu, Szechwan) 

 of Parus major suhWhetanus Kleinschmidt and Weigold ^^ are avail- 

 able for comparison, but quite a large series from farther east in the 

 Province, mostly from the vicinity of Suifu, do not appear to differ 

 materially from birds from the mountains of northwest Yunnan 

 that Rothschild ^^ has assigned to Wbeta/nus. 



87. PENTHESTES SONGARUS AFFINIS (Przewalski) 



Poecile afflTiis Pbzewalski, Mongol i Strana Tangut, vol. 2, 1876, p. 52 ; Rowley's 

 Ornith. MiscelL, vol. 2, 1877, p. 188 (Alashan Mountains and Kansu). 



Three males, 15 miles northwest of Ninghsia (Holanshan Moun- 

 tains), Kansu, May 13-14. 



Przewalski (in the translation in Rowley's Ornith. MiscelL, cited 

 above) says: "Not having preserved any specimens from Muni-ul 



10 Handb. Birds Eastern China, pt. 1, 1925, pp. 23-25. 

 "Abh. u. Ber. Mus. Dresden, vol. 15, 1922, p. 11. 

 i^Nov. Zool., vol. 30, 1923, p. 263. 



