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yellow underparts, yellow - grey cheeks, and dark ear- 

 coverts. 



Ti/pe. Adult female collected at Dalat, Langbian Plateau, 

 South Annara, 5000 feet, on 8 April, 1918, by C. Boden 

 Kloss. 



Total length 182 mm. ; wing 83 ; tail 97. 



Sixteen specimens examined from the Langbian Massif. 



Mr. J. D. La Touche sent the following description : — 



Passer rutilans yunnanensis, subsp. nov. 



Like Passer r. cinnamomeus, but much darker. Female 

 especially much darker on the underparts. 



Wing, S 71, 72 mm. ; ? 68, 71-5. 



Types, c?. Lotukow, S.E. Yunnan, 12 May, 1921. 

 ? . Milati, „ „ 10 Feb. 1921. 



This Sparrow, which Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker has kindly 

 compared for me at the British Museum, appears to be 

 found as a resident all over S.E. Yunnan, as I have breeding 

 specimens from Lotukow and Yunnan-fu and winter-birds 

 from Mengtz and Milati. I may mention here that Passer 

 r. intensior Rothschild, lately described from the Upper 

 Mekong Valley, also breeds at Yunnau-fu. 



Mr. Nagamichi Kuroda, F.M.B.O.U., sent the following 

 descriptions of apparently new forms of birds from the 

 Borodino Islands, Hiu Kiu group, Japan. 



I have recently examined 126 skins which were collected 

 by Mr, H. Orii on Borodino Islands or Daitojima in the 

 Middle Riu Kiu group (about 200 miles east of Okinawa), 

 and the following five forms of birds are apparently un- 

 described : — 



Zosterops palpel)rosa daitoensis, subsp. nov. 



Near to Z. palpebrosa hatanis McGregor of Batan I., 

 Philippine Islanda, and Botel Tobago, 8. Formosa, but it 



