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streaked. Birds from the high mountains of Yunnan are more 

 heavily streaked on the upper parts; this form has been named 

 Anthus maculatus yunnanensis by Uchida and Kuroda.^^ Dr. C. W. 

 Richmond^*' renamed Anthus maculatus Hodgson, nomen nudum, 

 Pipastes maculatus Jerdon, not Motadlla rnaculata Gmelin, Anthus 

 hodgsoni. This would make the type locality of the latter Nepal 

 and probably Uchida and Kuroda's form is a synonym of it. The 

 only safe course for the present is to use a name of undoubted 

 applicability. 



135. ANTHUS RICHARDI RICHARDI Vieillot 



Anthus richardi Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vol. 26, 1818, p. 491 (France). 



Four males and one unsexed, 45 miles northwest of Ninghsia, 

 May 7-19; one male, 30 miles east-southeast of Lanchow, July 16; 

 one female, 100 miles southwest of Lanchow, Kansu, August 31. 



The August specimen is a bird of the j'^ear with some immature 

 plumage on the back. I have no specimens of A. r. striolatus for 

 comparison and most of my richardi are birds taken on migration. 

 In size they seem to agree with specimens from east China. 



Family BOMBYCILLIDAE 



WAXWINGS 



136. BOMBTCILLA GARRULA CENTRALASIAE Poljakow 



Bombycilla garrulus centralasiae Poljakow, Messr. Orn., vol. 6, 1915, p. 137 

 (Zaissan Dist., Altai). 



A large series, Eastern Tombs, Chihli, November 16-January 3. 



The above series when compared with a small number of European 

 specimens is much lighter and grayer, both above and below, but 

 especially above. 



Family LANIIDAE 



SHEIEES 



137. LANroS SPHENOCERCUS SPHENOCERCUS Cabanis 



Lanius sphenocercus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1873, p. 76 (Canton). 



One female, 25 miles south-southwest of Ninghsia, June 6; one 

 male, 15 miles south of Mnghsia, Kansu, October 14. 



138. LANIUS TEPHRONOTUS Vigors 



Lanius tephronotus Vigors, Proc. Zool. See. London, 1831, p. 43 (Himalaya). 



One male, 15 miles northwest of Ninghsia, May 16; 5 males, 15 



miles east-southeast of Lanchow, July 10-11; 3 males, 1 female, 



=»Annot. Zool. Jap., vol. 9. 1916, 134. 



'^ Research in China, Carnegie Inst., vol. 1. pt. 2, 1907, p. 493. 



