BANGS: BIRDS FROM THE LIU KIU ISLANDS. 267 
Lanius bucephalus Trmm. & Scat. 
One adult 9 from Ishigaki, May 10, 1899. I have compared this skin with 
an extensive series from Japan, and find it identical with mainland birds of 
the same sex in corresponding plumage. 
Parus stejnegeri,! sp. nov. 
Tyre. — Mus. Comp. Zoo6l., No. 87,392. 
Three specimens from Ishigaki, adult ¢ February 27, adult 9 June 1, and 
a nestling June 7. 
Characters. — Not nearly related to any known species ; general coloration 
gray-blue, black, and white ; under tail coverts mostly black; outer rectrices 
with no white, except a very narrow tip on the outer pair; no white patch on 
nape, a few feathers of this region with partly concealed white spots only 
noticeable when the feathers are disturbed ; general coloration of nestling 
greenish and dull yellow, showing the probable affinities of this species to some 
of the yellow and green titmice, such as P. jerdoni, P. inseparatus, ete., which 
have black under tail coverts and but little white in the tail. 
Color. — Adult g type,a large white auricular patch ; rest of head, throat, 
jugulum, and neck glossy blue-black ; a few feathers on middle of hind neck 
with small semi-concealed white spots; back, rump, and upper tail coverts 
dark plumbeous, slightly paler on lower rump; scapulars and broad edgings 
to greater and lesser wing coverts plumbeous ; some of the greater coverts 
tipped with drab-gray, forming a broken and inconspicuous wing bar; rest of 
wing grayish black, primaries edged with light plumbeous, secondaries with 
greenish gray, and tertials rather more broadly on outer webs with grayish 
white; primary coverts greenish gray ; a broad black stripe down middle of 
under parts, from jugulum to under tail coverts; sides and flanks dull olive 
gray, much paler and more drabby along edges of central black stripe and 
below the black of jugulum and sides of neck ; under tail coverts black, slightly 
edged and tipped with dark plumbeous, one or two of the shortest lateral ones 
a little marked with white ; rectrices, below blue-black, above, broadly edged 
on outer webs with dark plumbeous, the central pair mostly of this color, on 
both webs ; two outer rectrices with very narrow white tips, 2 mm. deep; 
bend of wing black; under primary coverts black tipped with white; axillas 
mostly white ; under sides of primaries grayish white on edges of inner webs. 
Adult 9, topotype, No. 37,393, similar in markings to the male, all the colors 
duller and lateral under tail coverts more noticeably marked with white. 
Nestling, topotype, about two-thirds grown, auricular patch olive yellow ; 
head, back, and throat dusky olive green, darkest on top of head and sides of 
throat ; a blackish line down middle of belly; sides, flanks, and under tail 
1 Named in honor of Dr. Leonhard Stejneger. 
