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The Kashmir breeding bird is very small and may not be 

 true agricolus, but more material is required. 



ACROCEPHALUS CONCINENS. 



Wing-formula : first primary 9-11 mm. ; second primary 

 = 8th to 10th. 



A. c. concinens. Breeding mountains of Central North 

 China to Kashmir ; winter to South China and North India. 



A. c. haringtoni. Breeding mountains of North-West 

 Frontier of India, Afghanistan, Baluchistan, and E;i.st 

 Persia ; winter to Western India. 



A. c. stevensoni. Breeding in sub-Himalayan tracts from 

 Dooars to Eastern Assam ; winter to Bengal and Assam, 

 ? Behar. 



ACKOCEPHALUS STENTOREUS. 



Wing-formula : second primary equal to or shorter 

 than 5th. 



A. s. hrunnescens. Breeding mountains of China and 

 Himalayas ; winter to South China, India, etc. 



A. s. amyce. Breeding sub-Himalayan Terai and plains 

 from Sind to Eas'tern Assam; winter Northern India and 

 Burma south to Pegu. 



AcROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS. 



Wing-formula : second primary equal to or longer 

 than 4th. 



A. a. orientalis. Breeding Central and North Asia east to 

 Japan and North-East China, also mountains of Northern 

 and Central China ; winter south to India, Burma, China, 

 etc.. etc. 



Hodgsonius phcenicuroides ichangensis, subsp. nov. 



Similar to H. p. phcenicuroides from the Himalayas, but 

 smaller and with a decidedly smaller bill. The backs of the 

 males are a deeper blue than in that bird and there is no 

 fulvous-brown wash on the posterior flank and vent as in 



