Vol. 31, pp. 33-34 May 16, 1918 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON A NEW BULLFINCH FROM CHINA. BY J. H. RILEY.* Mr. George D. Wilder, of Peking, China, has presented to the U.S. National Museum a small bullfinch captured in the wooded mountains of Chili Province, China. It apparently represents an isolated race of Pyrrhula erythaca, which I take pleasure in naming after the donor : Pyrrhula erythaca wilderi, subsp. nov. Type, adult female, U. S. National Museum, No. 254,074, Eastern Hills about sixty miles east of Peking, China, February, 1917. Collected by George D. Wilder (original No. 419). Similar to Pyrrhula erythaca Blyth, but smaller, with black facial mask more restricted, the lighter border of the facial mask almost obso-lete, the lighter tips to the greater coverts narrower, and the dark band across the lower back less pronounced and lighter in color. Description. — A narrow band surrounding the bill and running back around the eye and slightly further as a postocular streak, black ; a nar-row band bordering the black on the forehead and below the eye, smoke gray; top of head, cervix, sides of neck, auriculars, and upper back, neutral gray ; back and scapulars, wood brown ; a band across the lower back, deep neutral gray ; rump, white ; upper tail coverts, tail, and pri-maries, black with steely blue reflections; alula, lesser, middle, and primary wing-coverts, deep neutral gray; greater wing-coverts, black, tipped rather broadly with drab and the outer feathers narrowly edged at the tip with white, forming a wing-bar; chest drab; flanks cinnamon-drab; middle of belly, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts, white. Wing, 73.5 (85); tail, 53 (65.5); culmen, 8.5 (10.5) mm. Remarks. — I have given the measurements of a female specimen of Pyrrhula e. erythaca from Szechuan Province in parenthesis for com-parison. * Published with the permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 9— Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 31, 1918. (33)
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