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Wing-quills much blacker, with less blue edging. Bill 

 rather heavier. Wing 104 mm. 



Type. S ad., Loukouchai, S.E. Yunnan (3500 £t.), 7th 

 April, 1921. 



A younger male, also from Loukouchai, dated 1st March,, 

 1921, has the under tail-coverts brown. 



Anthipes laurentei, sp. nov. 



Nearest to A.poliogenys, but male differing at a glance £rom^ 

 that species by the entire absence of grey on the head and 

 cheeks, by the dull fulvous squamated chin and upper 

 throat, and the white abdomen and under tail-coverts. The 

 flanks are grey, only the breast being rufous. The upper 

 parts resemble those of A. poliogenys, except as regards the 

 head and nape, which are almost concolorous with the rest of 

 the upper parts, but are more olive-coloured. 



Wing 73 mm. Bill black, legs violet-pink (dry). 



The female resembles the male, but has the flanks huffish 

 brown. Wing 73 mm. Upper mandible brown, lower 

 mandible dirty brownish grey, tipped darker. Legs flesh- 

 coloured with a pale violet wash. 



Tyi^es. S , Loukouchai, S.E. Yunnan (3500 ft.), 11 April,, 

 1921. 



? , Mengtsz, S.E. Yunnan (4000 ft.), 9th Oct., 1920. 



Named in honour of Mr. E. P. Laurente, of the Mengtsz: 

 Customs, to whom I am indebted for his valuable co-operation 

 and for the capture of the larger part of my Yunnan Collec- 

 tion. 



Trochalopterum phceniceum wellsi, subsp. nov. 



Very near T. p. ripponi, from which it differs in being 

 generally darker. The crown and nape are much greener,, 

 being nearly concolorous with the back. The tail is less 

 conspicuously barred, the bars being almost obsolete, the- 

 crimson and green edging of the wings is more intense, the 

 green being olive-green rather than olive-yellow. There' 

 is also less red on the throat. Wing 87 mm. Iris dark- 

 crimson, bill brownish-black, legs madder-brown. 



Type. ? ad., Mengtsz, S.E. Yunnan, 21st Feb., 1921. 



