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147. PYRGILAUDA EUFICOLLIS (Blanford) 



Montifringilla ruficolUs Blanfoed, Proc. Asiat, Soc. Bengal, 1871, p. 227 (Kan- 

 gra Lama Pass, north Sikkim). 



One male, 40 miles west of Sining, Kansu, August 15. 



This bird has quite a remarkable bill. The base of the upper man- 

 dible is swollen around the nostrils, which are exposed and open up- 

 ward; between the nostrils the culmen is raised for a short distance 

 basally into a sort of knob or short ridge. 



148. RHODOSPIZA OBSOLETA (Lichtenstein) 



Fringilla oisoleta Lichtenstein, in Eversmann's Reise, Anhang, 1823, p. 132 

 (Bnchara). 



Two females, TO miles northwest of Paotow, Inner Mongolia, 

 March 31. 



A small series (four males and one female) from east Turkestan, 

 taken in August and November, are browner above and lighter below 

 than the above specimens. This difference is probably seasonal, as 

 the August bird still retains some of the browner summer plumage 

 below. 



149. ERYTHROSPIZA MONGOLICA (Swinhoe) 



Carpodacus monffoUcus Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1870, p. 447 (Nankow Pass). 



Two males, Paotow, Inner Mongolia, March 18; 1 male aiid 2 

 females, 70 miles northwest of Ninghsia April 29, and 1 immature 

 female Lanchow, Kansu, July 9. 



A small series in the United States National Museum from Kash- 

 mir (1 male and 1 female) and east Turkestan (Tian Shan Moun- 

 tains, north of Kashgar, 2 males and 3 females), taken in November 

 and September, are less suffused with pinkish below and on the wings 

 and seem to lack the whitish mark on the outer web of the inner 

 secondaries that is such a prominent feature in the above series. 

 Whether these differences are seasonal or not I am not prepared 

 to say. 



150. PASSER MONTANUS OBSCURATUS Jacobi 



Passer montanus obscuratus Jacoei, Abli. und Ber. Mus. Dresden, vol. 16, No. 

 1, 1923, p. 32 (Prov. Hupeli and Szetschwan). 



Four males and two females, Paotow, Inner Mongolia, March 20; 

 two females, 30 miles northwest of Paotow, March 29. 



This series does not seem to differ from Hupeh and Szechwan 

 birds. One of the females taken, March 29, is a partial albino. 



151. PASSER AMMODENDRI STOLICZKAE Hume 



Passer stoUczJcae Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. 2, 1874, p. 516, (Yarkand, 

 Kaschgar). 



One male, 60 miles northwest of Ninghsia, Kansu, April 30. 



