collected in South China. 
583 
-(-27. SlTTA MAGNA. 
Sitta magna Wardlaw Ramsay ; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
viii. p. 345 (1883). 
a. d ad. Wei-yiAan, S. Yunnan, 19 March, 1899. 
Iris dark brown. Total length 8 inches. 
There is a fine adult male of this very rare Nuthatch from 
Wei-yiAan, which differs somewhat from the only male 
specimen in the British Museum. In addition to the female 
type obtained by Major Wardlaw Ramsay from Karen-nee, 
the collection now possesses a pair of S. magna obtained at 
Kalaw, South Shan States, in May, by Major G. Rippon ; 
both male and female have the basal half of the lower 
mandible white. The type female killed in January resembles 
the female from Kalaw, but the white on the base of the 
mandible is much less defined and suffused with dusky horn- 
colour. Capt. Wingate’s bird, shot in March, has the bill 
blackish horn, with hardly a trace of whitish mottling 
towards the base of the lower mandible; the culmen, 
measuring 1*32 inch, is, moreover, somewhat longer than that 
of the type, which, though the largest of the three specimens 
in the collection, has a culmen measuring only 1*25 inch. 
There can be little doubt that the bird before us is a fully 
adult male of S. magna ; the difference in the colour of the 
mandible is probably seasonal, the white base denoting the 
breeding bird. 
“f*-. 28. iETHOPYGA SANGUINI PECTUS. 
JEthopyga sanguinipectus Walden ; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 27 (1884). 
a. $ ad. Man-lo, near Moug-sen, Southern Yunnan, 
22 March, 1899. 
Iris brown. Total length 6 inches. 
29. ^Ethopyga dabryi. 
Mt.hopyga dahryi (Verr.) • David & Oustal. Ois. Chine, 
p. 80, pi. 11 (1877) ; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 28 
(1884). 
a. d a d- Nan-an-chu, near Yunnan city, E. Yunnan, 
28 February, 1899. 
