A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM TONKIN. 



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One male (Nov. 18, 191 1) and one female (Oct. 17) from Yen-bai. 

 Four males (Nov. 7, 191 1 ; Feb. 21, 29; Mar. 6, 1912Ì from Lao-kay. 



61. AJcippe morriaoniana Swinhoe. 

 Morrisonian Babbler. 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus., VII, p. 621; Ogilvie-Grant, P. Z. S., 1900, p. 

 477; Alcippe morrisoma Swinhoe, P.Z.S., 1871, p. 374; Uchida, Annot. Zool. 

 Japon., 1912, p. 180. 



Three males (Oct. 16; Nov. 17, 18, 191 1) and one female (Nov. 17, 



191 1) from Yen-bai. 



This is the first time the species is recorded from Tonkin. I cannot 

 find any difference between Formosan and Tonkin specimens. 



62. Stachyrhis nigriceps Hodgs. 

 Black-throated Babbler. 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus., VII, p. 532 ; Oates, F. B. Ind., Bds., I, p. 

 162; Anderson, Yunnan Exp., Aves, p. 636; Ingram, Nov. Zool., XIX, p. 

 288. 



One male (Feb. 21, 191 2) and three females (Feb. 23, 29; Mar. 14, 



1912) from Lao-kay. 



63. Siachyrhiilopsis ruficeps (Blyth). 

 Red-headed Babbler. 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus., VII, p. 598 ; Oates, F. Br. Ind., Bds., I, p. 

 164; Grant, P.Z.S., 1900, p. 476; Subsp., Ingram, Nov. Zool., XIX, p. 288 ; 

 S. prœcognitiis (Sw.), P.Z.S., 1 87 1 , p. 373 ; David et Oust., Ois. Chine, p. 

 224; Uchida, Annot. Zool. Japon., 1912, p. 181. 



Three males (Dec. 13, 14, 191 1; Feb. 25, 1912) from Lao-kay. Three 

 females (Oct. 16, 22; Nov. 17, 191 1) from Yen-bai. 



64. Schœniparua ruflgtUaris (Mandelli). 

 Red-throated Tit-Babbler. 

 Oates, F. B. Ind., Bds., I, p. 170 ; Minia rnfigularis Mandelli, Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus., VII, p. 610. 



