43 [Vol. xxxvii. 



In the Vog. pal. Fauna, i. p. 522 (Fel). 1909), I gave the 

 distribution of Phylloscopus tt'oc/dloides as Himalaya and 

 Kuatun in Fokien (China), in winter Bengal to Assam, 

 Burmah, Tenasserim, and South China. Since then Mr, E. 

 C. Stuart Baker found' the species breeding in the Khasia 

 Hills, south of the Brahmaputra, and separated the race 

 of that region as Ph. irochiloides harterti (Bull. B. O. C. xxxi. 

 p. 36, 1913). The principal difference of this subspecies 

 is the smaller size^ the other characters described by its 

 author being rather variable and not constant. With a 

 series of specimens to hand, I come now to the conclusion 

 that the birds from Fokien are also rather different from 

 Ph. trochiloides trochiioides. I therefore call them 



Phylloscopus trochiloides fokiensis, subsp. n. 



They differ from both Ph. tr. trochiloides and harterti by 

 the brighter and more yellow forehead, sincipital and super- 

 ciliary lines, also of the edges of the rectrices, and, generally, 

 the underside. The yellow wing-bars are narrow, but about 

 as bright as in harterti (where they vary a good deal), the 

 white edges to the inner webs of the two outer rectrices are 

 very narrow, but distinct. Wings : ^ 59-60, ? 56-58 ram. 



Type : ^ ad. Kuatun, Fokien, 15. iv. 1897. J. De La 

 Touche coll. (in the Tring Museum). 



These forms have their closest ally in Ph. davisoni, from 

 Manipur and Burmah^ which is still smaller than harterti. 

 In Fokien breeds another species with quite bright yellow 

 underside. Ph. ricketti (described as Cryptolopha !), and a 

 paler form on the mountains of Hainan, the Ph. goodsoni. 



Mr. H. F. WiTHERBY exhibited a Tree-Pipit collected 

 by the late Colonel H. H. Harington in the summer of 

 1914, in the Kaghan Valley, Hazara, North-west India. 

 Mr. Witherby remarked that this bird, as well as other 

 skins in the British Museum Collection from high ground 

 in Kashmir in summer, differed from the typical Anthus 



