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Mr. La Touclie had presented three examples of this 

 small Reed-Warbler to the British Museum. The name 

 had been given in honour of his skilful Chinese collectors, 

 the brothers Tang. 



Mr. H. F. Witherby, in exhibiting examples of a new 

 Warbler collected by Captain H. Lynes in China, remarked 

 that by a curious coincidence Mr. La Touche had forwarded 

 a description of the same species from specimens collected 

 by himself at Chin-wang-tao. As Mr. Witherby had deter- 

 mined the bird to be new some three or four months ago, 

 Mr. La Touche's description had very kindly been with- 

 drawn. 



LUSCINIOLA PRYERI SINENSIS, Subsp. n. 



Adult male and female. Summer-plumage. Differ from 

 L. p. pryeri (Seebohm) in the much less rufous colouring 

 of the upperparts ; the whiter colour of the breast and 

 belly ; and in having a rather longer tail. General colour 

 of the upperparts bright brownish-buff striped with black, 

 the feathers being black broadly margined with bright 

 brownish-buff, the black markings being more restricted on 

 the upper tail-coverts ; forehead with only narrow streaks of 

 black ; lores and stripe over the eye whitish ; ear-coverts and 

 sides of neck brownish ; throat, breast, and belly white, the 

 sides, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts bright buff. 

 Under wing-coverts and axillaries greyish-white ; wing- 

 feathers brownish-black, with broad buff edgings to the outer 

 webs; the four innermost secondaries with the outer webs 

 deep black margined with bright buff. Tail buffish-brown 

 with black shaft-stripes, narrow on the outer feathers and 

 becoming much broader on the middle feathers. First 

 primary 6-9 mm. longer than the longest primary-covert 

 and about half the length of the second primary ; second 

 primary between the eighth and tenth and 7-9 mm. shorter 

 than the third ; third 2 mm. shorter than the fourth and 

 fifth, which are almost equal and longest; sixth 3 mm. 

 shorter than the fifth ; seventh to tenth decreasing in steps 

 of 2 mm. Tail long, much graduated and composed of 



