NOVTTATES ZOOLOQICAE XXV. 1918. 307 



Remiza coronaia (Severtz.). 



,, ssaposhnikowi Johansen. 



,, macronyx inacronyx (Severtz.). 



,, macronyx neglecta (Zar.). 



„ macronyx nigricans (Zar.). 



Soon afterwards more new forms were added. 



In Mess. Orn. 1913, p. 4C, Zarudny reviews (in Russian!) the Eastern 

 Penduline Tits. He discusses two specimens already described by Menzbier from 

 the Lower Ural River. These birds, he says, look like hybrids between A. pen- 

 dulinus and macronyx, but, as the latter does not occur on the Ural River, he 

 justly does not consider them to be hybrids, and he names them : 



Remiza pendulina bostanjogli. 



But this course appears to be also reckless, because A. pendulinus caspius lives 

 on the Ural River, and as the birds were shot on April 26th they were probably 

 on their breeding-ground — unless stiU on migration and from an unknown place 

 in Western Siberia ? 



Zarudny further describes in this article : 



Remiza pendulina menzbieri 



from the Karun River in South- Western Persia. 



In the same periodical, Mess. Orn. 1914, pp. 184—220, he once more reviews 

 (in Russian !) at great length the Turkestan forms of Remiza, after having already 

 separated in Orn. Monatsher. 1914, p. 57, under the name 



Remiza macronyx loudoni 



the macronyx form from Lenkoran from that of Northern Persia ; he thus 

 restricts neglectus to the reed-beds of Ghilan, Masanderan, and Asterabad. 



Of the same species, macronyx, he separates off another subspecies, which 

 Tie calls 



Remiza macronyx paradoxa, 



and which he found near Chardjui on the Amu-Darya, thus apparently restrict- 

 ing jnacronyx macronyx to the Syr-Darya region ! 



We are thus having a nice assemblage of forms in a comparatively small 

 region, but nevertheless some birds in the Tring and British Museum seem to be 

 different from all the hitherto described forms. 



For some time we had in Tring a male and female of a Penduhne Tit 

 collected at Eregh in Asia Minor, on May 8th and 1 1th, 1908, by P. Urmos, wliich 

 did not seem to agree with A. pendulinus pendulinus ; with these birds agree 

 specimens from Lenkoran, i.e. one " male " dated 2. ti. 1882, from the H. H. Slater 

 collection, and one in the British Museum, a male collected at Kaisarieh in Asia 

 Minor, by C. E. Danford, and two from Lake Urmia in North-Western Persia. 

 These birds are very much like A. p. pendulinus, but smaller, i.e. with shorter 

 wings and tails, while the bills are equally slender and long, or even a little 

 longer. The chestnut line abo"ve the black forehead is exceedingly narrow, 

 sometimes hardly visible, top of head of male in spring pure white. Lesser upper 



