306 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 



Antlioscopys pendulinus stoliczkae (Hume). 



,, „ consobriims (Swinh.). 



,, yeniseensis (Sushk.). 



„ corojuitus (Severtz.). 



„ macronyx (Severtz.). 



Tliis arrangement was, as far as I know, quite correct ; but yeniseensis, of w liicli 

 nobody had then seen adult specimens, should, according to Zarudny, be looketl 

 upon as a subspecies of pendulinus, and very soon new forms were added. 



In 1907 (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mits. xxxii. pp. 474, 475, Clark described Beiniz 

 consobriims suffusus from Corea and Remiz consobrinus japonicus from Japan, 

 but both names are synonyms of consobrinus. 



In the same year appeared Anthoscopus ssaposhnikoivi Johansen, Orn. Jahrb. 

 xviii. p. 201, from Lake Balkash ; which Zarudny at first considered also to be 

 a subspecies of pendviinus ; but in 3Iess. Orn. 1916, p. 254, after having examined 

 the type, he thought that it sliould be looked upon as a separate species, the 

 bill, feet, and first primary Ijcing that of a macronyx, M'liile the coloration was 

 not like any plumage of the latter, but rather more like pendidiuus ca.sjiii.x. 

 He further found that his Rcniiza macrony.c jxtradoxa (from the Amu- Darya !) 

 is identical with ssaposhnikowi ! 



When describing qmradoxiis the author had no hesitation to place it as a 

 subspecies of macronyx \ I am very doul^tful whether it is right or not to 

 attach so much importance to the shajie of bill and size of feet as Zarudny does, 

 and the length of the first primarj' (which I used to look upon as a safe diag- 

 nostic cliaracter) is variable, as Zarudny too admits ; in my opinion the larger 

 feet and stronger more cliisel-Uke bill of tiidcroiiyx is also — though generally 

 characteristic — to some extent variable, and specimens of pendulinus can be 

 found which in this respect match some macronyx. 1 am therefore not at all 

 sure if ssaposhnikowi cannot after all be looked upon as a large-billed, large- 

 footed subspecies of pendulinus, with which it agrees essentially in coloration. 



In the following year (Orn. Monatsber. 1908, pp. 162, 163) Zaruchiy adds two 

 more subspecies of A. macronyx \\liich he describes as Anlhoscopus rutilans 

 vegleclus and Anthoscojn's rutilans nigricans, the first from the reed-beds on 

 the southern Caspian, near Lenkoran, and in the Persian provinces of Gliilan 

 and Masanderan, to Astrabad and " Djcbel " ( ?) ; the latter from the Helmind 

 River and Lakes " Chamoon-i-Suwaran " and " Chamoon-i-Farrakh ' in Seistan, 

 Eastern Persia. 



In 1911 E. C. Hellmayr gave a full review of all forms known until then, 

 in Wytsman's Genera Avium, part 18, pp. 5S-C0. He recognized the following 

 forms : 



Remiza perululina pendulina (L.). 

 ,, ,, caspia (Poelzam). 



J, ,, jaxartensis Sushk. 



,, ,, stoliczkae (Hume). 



,. consobrina (Swinh.) 

 ,, tjeniseensis Sushk. (He added : " Doubtful form. If anything 

 it will prove to be a geographical race of R. pendulina . No adult males are known.' ' 

 Judging from the locahty, this form should certainly be different, and it is indeed 

 treated as pendulinus subsp. by recent Russian authors.) 



