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Alcippe fratercula yunnanensis, subsp. n. 



Similar to A. fratercula Rippon, but larger ; the head and 

 neck of a much paler grey, the stripes on the head and neck 

 being less distinct or wanting in some specimens ; the 

 underparts also are paler and of a more yellowish tinge ; 

 bill smaller. 



Adult. A ring of white feathers round the eye, head and 

 neck pale ashy-grey ; indications of two blackish stripes, one 

 on each side of the nape, and none on the head ; in some 

 specimens these are obsolete or wanting ; ear-coverts of the 

 same colour as the head ; back pale olive-brown ; under- 

 parts pale ochraceous, tinged with olivaceous on the flanks. 



" Iris crimson, upper mandible dark horn-colour, lower 

 mandible like the feet ; legs and feet livid horn-colour." 

 (Rippon.) 



Culmen 10 mm. ; wing 69. 



In A. fratercula : culmen 11 mm. ; wing 62-66. 



Hob. Mountains of Yunnan, from 8,000-10,000 ft. 



Obs. There are several examples in the British Museum 

 from the above locality collected by Col. G. Rippon. 



Type in the British Museum : Adult. Gyi-dzin-shan, east 

 of Talifu, 8900 ft., 2. iv. 02. G. Rippon coll. 



Stachyridopsis sulphurea Rippon. 



Rippon, Bull. B. O.C. xi. p. 11 (1900). 



The specimen so named by Col. Rippon is not a Stachy- 

 ridopsis, but an example of Mixornis gularis rubricapillus 

 Tickell. The name therefore becomes a synonym of that 

 species. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited immature examples 

 of the Starling which breeds in the Shetland Islands, 

 together with adult specimens both in summer- and in winter- 

 plumage. He pointed out that these young birds differed 

 in a very marked degree from young Starlings of a similar 

 age from the mainland of Great Britain, having the general 

 colour above dark sooty-black, and the underparts of the 

 same colour, but a degree paler. The chin and upperpart 



