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119. PRUNELLA FULVESCENS MONGOLICA Snshkin 



Frunella fulvescens mongolica Sushkin, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 38, 

 No. 1, 1925, p. 52 (Kobdo, N. W. Mongolia). 



One female, 157 miles west-northwest of Paotow, Inner Mongolia, 

 April 8. 



This may not be true mongolica. It is darker above than a female 

 specimen from the Tian Shan Mountains, north of Kashgar, taken 

 September 13 {P. f. juldussica). 



120. PRUNELLA FULVESCENS NANSHANICA Sushkin 



Prunella fulvescens nanslianica Sushkin, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 38, 

 No. 1, 1925, p. 51 (Kwei-Te-ting or Gui-dui). 



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

 tains), Kansu, May 12. 



This series is paler above and below than the specimen identified 

 above as P. f. tnongolica. It is quite possible that the above speci- 

 mens do not belong to this form at all. They are much lighter, both 

 above and below than Prunella fulvescens nadiae Bangs and Peters ^^ 

 from Choni, S. W. Kansu. The dark stripes on the back are nar- 

 rower and lighter in color. They are in a more worn and bleached 

 condition, but this will not account for some of the differences. The 

 Holanshan chain seems to be more or less the eastern terminus of the 

 Nanshan system. A desert or semidesert intervenes between the 

 ranges of nadiae and the present form. 



Family SYLVIIDAE 



WARBLERS 

 121. SYLVIA CURRUCA AFFINIS BIyth 



Sylvia afflnis Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. 14, 1845, p. 564 (India). 

 One male, 45 miles northwest of Ninghsia, Kansu, May 6. 



122. RHOPOPHILUS PEKINENSIS (Swinhoe) 



Drymoeca peJcinensis Swinhoe, Ibis, 1868, p. 62 (Pekin). 



One male, 120 miles west of Paotow, Inner Mongolia, October 22. 



This is so very different from Rhopophilus alhoswperciliaris 

 (Hume) that it is difficult to believe they represent forms of a single 

 species, 



123. PHAEORHADINA FUSCATA FUSCATA (Blyth) 



Phyllopneuste fuscata Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. 11, 1842, p. 113 

 (Calcutta). 



Two males, 45 miles northwest of Ninghsia, Kansu, May 19-20. 



2s Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.. vol. 68. 1928, p. 355. 



