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breast of a much paler tint, between " light ochraceous buff " 

 and "warm buff" of Ridgway, without any tinge of orange 

 as in the other races. Sides of the belly infuscated, middle 

 of belly and under tail-coverts pure white. " Iris dark, bill 

 black, feet lilac-brown " (Kloss). 



Female. Not distinguishable with any certainty from those 

 of C. r. dialilcema and C. r. ruheculoides. 



Type. S ad., Dran, South Annam, 18th May, 1918. 

 Collected by C. B. Kloss. 



Specimeiis examined. The type and another adult male, 

 an immature male, and two adult females, all from the 

 type-locality. 



JDimensions. S '• total length 148 mm. (type), 141 ; wing, 

 12 (type), 71. ? : total length 147, 143 : wing 69, 67. 



The form not improbably occurs in South China. I have 

 seen female specimens from near Swatow, which agree with 

 those from Annam, but it is extremely difficult to separate 

 from these the females of the totally different S. pallidipes 

 hainana, which occurs over the same area and which is a 

 migratory bird. 



Mr. Stuakt Bakek, on behalf of Mr. J. D. D. La Touche, 

 described the following new birds from S.E. Yunnan, 

 S.W. China :- 



Sphenocercus sphenurus yunnanensis, subsp. nov. 



Adult male. Similar to S. s. sphenurus Vig., except that 

 the upper surface of the tail is green with a greyish tinge, 

 not yellowish green. The under tail-coverts are primrose- 

 yellow with broad shaft-stripes, and the wing-quills are 

 darker — slaty-black with a brownish tinge. Wing 173 mm., 

 bill (dry) bluish, legs (dry) dark coral-red. 



Type, c? , Lotukow, S.E. Yunnan, 6000 ft. alt., 14th May, 

 1921. 



The Pigeon collected by Owston's Japanese collectors at 

 Mengtsz in July is probably this bird. Mr. Bangs remarks 

 that " the ? is a much darker green on the upper parts, and 

 a slightly richer green below than in Indian females.''^ His 

 " (? agrees fairly well with the two male specimens from 

 Northern India in M. C. Z." 



