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underside. It differs from D.j. feddeni in its much larger 

 size, larger white tips to the secondaries, and much blacker 

 chin and throat. 



Culmen, cJ 62 mm., ? 50 mm. ; wing, S 253 mm., ? 

 247 mm. ; tarsus, (^ 40 mm., ? 35 mm. Bill black ; feet 

 greyish black ; iris pale green (G. Forrest). 



Hah. Mekong Valley, Yunnan, 1921. 



Dryobates obscurior, sp. no v. 



$ . Above still darker than D.pygmceus ohscurus La Touche. 

 Head down to base of culmen entirely black, bill slenderer 

 and more pointed. 



Underside as heavily streaked with black as in D. p. oh- 

 scwnis, but much greyer and less strongly washed with yellow. 

 " Bill, upper mandible black, lower grey-black ; feet black ; 

 iris brown " {G. Forrest). 



1 ? , Lichiang Range, May 1921, 9-11,000 ft. 



Dryobates pygmaeus omissus, subsp. no v. 



This is the bird I enumerated as D. scintilliceps (Novit. 

 Zool. xxviii. p. 22, no. 49, 1921). It has the underside less 

 heavily striped than in D. p. ohscurus, but much brighter 

 buffish-yellow, and the crown is as grey as in D. scintillicep)s. 



Type, S 5 Lichiang Range. 



Tarsiger indicus yunnanensis, subsp. nov. 



Differs from T. indicus indicxis in having a less uniform 

 underside, the throat being much paler and the rest of the 

 underside much suffused with yellow, not so strongly with 

 rust-colour. The white edging at the lower edge of cheeks 

 more distinct and the under wing-coverts and axiJlaries more 

 sulphur-yellow ; under tail-coverts greenish, less rusty. 



? . Differs by its paler throat and more yellow, less 

 brownish colour of the rest of the underside. 



" Bill and feet black ; iris dark brown " {G. Forrest). 



Bah. c? (type), Lichiang Range, 10,000 ft., 13 Nov., 1921. 

 ? , Mekong-Salwin Divide, 11,000 ft., Sept. 1921. 



