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H. p. phcenicuroides, except in one specimen, which shows it 

 to a very slight extent. The spots on the bastard-wing also 

 seem to be bolder and more prominent in the Chinese than in 

 the Indian birds. 



Fourteen Chinese birds vary from 69 to 71 mm. in wing- 

 measurement, as against 73 to 79 in Indian birds; whilst 

 the culmen from feathers o£ forehead to tip measures 13 mm. 

 as aofainst 15 mm. 



Ti/pe. No. 1914.7.16.551. Ichang, Upper Yangtse Valley. 

 F. W. Stvan Coll., British Museum. 



Birds from Yunnan are somewhat intermediate, wings 

 73 mm., culmen 15 mm., but with the deep blue backs of 

 H. p. ichangensis. 



Saxicola caprata "burmanica, subsp. nov. ^_ 



Exactly like S. c. caprata from Luzon and other islands, 

 but bigger — wings 67—72 mm., as against 63-65 mm., in one 

 instance only 67 mm. ; culmen 11-11*5 mm., as against 10- 

 10' 5 mm., very rarely 11 mm. 



In a few cases the white on the under tail-coverts extends 

 also to the tips of the longest feathers of the extreme posterior 

 flanks, but in no instance does it extend on to the abdomen, 

 as in S. c. licolor ; whilst it is easily separated from S. c. 

 atrata by its much smaller size and smaller bill. 



Type. No. 88.4.1492, Pegu. British Museu.n Collection. 



Type-locality. Pegu. 



Range. Northern Malay States, Tenuasserim to Chin 

 Hills, Assam south of the Brahmaputra, Kachin Hills, 

 Shan States, and Yunnan. 



Enicurus maculatus rohinsoni, subsp. nov. ,...\... 



Differs from E. m. maculatus in having no spots on the 

 breast and the spots on the back very much smaller ; from 

 JiJ. m. guttatus it differs in being very much smaller and in 

 having feuer and much smaller spots on the back; from 

 Lord Rothschild's E. m. omissus it differs in having much 

 smaller spots on the back. 



