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and the Hoang-ho Valley, we can not state with certainty whether 

 the birds we shot there belonged to the present species or not," 



Not having any specimens for comparison, I can not do better; 

 the above specimens do not exactly agree with the description. They 

 resemble Penthestes cinctits, the top of the head is darker, not black, 

 however, but sepia; the back and flanks not darker but lighter, not 

 so tawny. It is a question, though, what Przewalski called black; 

 he says co^'ee-black, probably meaning dark brown. 



88. PERIPARUS ATER PEKINENSIS (David) 



Parus pekinensis David, Ibis, 1870, p. 155 (Peking, China). 

 One male, Eastern Tombs, Chihli, January 1. 



89. AEGITHALOS GLAUCOGULARIS VINACEUS (Verreanx) 



Mecistura vinacea Verkeaux, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. 6, Bull., 1870, p. 39 

 (mts. of Chinese Tibet). 



Two females. Eastern Tombs, Chihli, December 13 and 18; one 

 male immature, 120 miles south of Lanchow, Kansu, August 3. 



A few years ago I recorded ^^ a pair of these birds from the Lashipa 

 Plain, Yunnan. Recently Lord Rothschild ^^ has questioned this 

 identification. The specimens in question are in worn plumage but 

 are considerably larger than Aegithalos glaucogularis glaucogularis^ 

 of which the United States National Museum possesses a good series. 

 At the time I made the above identification I did not have specimens 

 oi A. g. vinaceus for comparison, but the two above specimens con- 

 firm my identification of the Yunnan birds. Mecistura vinacea has 

 usually been placed as a race of Aegithalos caudatus by authors, but 

 La Touche ^^ has made it a race of glaucogularis, which seems to me 

 more logical. The two races differ principally in size. 



Family PARADOXORNITHIDAE 



PARROT-BILLS 

 90. SUTHORA WEBBIANA FULVICAUDA Campbell 



Suthora fulvicauda Campbell, Ibis, 1892, p. 237 (Chemulpo, Corea). 

 One female. Eastern Tombs, Chihli, January 5. 



13 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 5, 1926, p. 50. 



"Nov. Zool., vol. 33, no. 4, 1927, p. 396. 



^ Handbook Birds Eastern China, pt. 1, 1925, p. 32. 



