REVIEW OP JAPANESE BIRDS. 

 BV LEOIVIIARD STEJIVEO£R. 



II.— TITS AXD NUTHATCHES. 



The present essay has the same aim aud scope as the oue treating 

 of rhe Japanese Woodpeckers and published a short time ago in these 

 Proceedings (see mitea pp. 99-124). It embraces the family Paridcv, with 

 which I associate the Nuthatches as a subfamily only. The introduc- 

 tory remarks accompanying the former article api^ly as well to this 

 and the succeeding papers of the present series, which, I may repeat, 

 is only a kind of a prodromus of a more extensive work, in order to call 

 attention to doubtful points ; to instigate investigation by others who 

 possess material not accessible to me; in short, to ask information from 

 fellow-ornithologists, which is hereby earnestly solicited, and for which 

 due credit will be given. 



SYNOPSIS OF THE JAPANESE GENERA OF PABIDJi. 



a'. Bill short, from mouth augle to tip storter thau tarsus. 



I. Paring : 



ft'. Culmeu and gouys ciu'ved (paries). 

 c'. Tail scarcely lon»«i- thau body; outer pair of tail-feathers more thau five- 

 sixths the leugth of the longest Parus. 



c*. Tail uearly twice as long as the body ; outer pair of tail-feathers less thau 



half the length of the longest ^githalos. 



i\ Culmeu and gouys perfectly straight (remize^) Remiza. 



a*. Bill long, from mouth angle to tip longer than tarsus. 



II. Sitting Sitta. 



PARUS Linn. 



1758.— Pflj-Ms Linn., S. N., 10 ed., i, p. 189. 



1829. — Cyauistes Kaup, Entw. Eur. Thierw., p. 99 (type P.cyaneus). 



1829. — PoBcile Kaup, Entw. Eur. Thierw., p. 114 (type P.paluatris) (nee Poedlus Bon., 



1813). 

 1850. — Poccila Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, p. 230 (emend.). 



18.50. — Penthestes Eeichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. Trepidat., pi. Isii (tyyie P.Iugubris). 

 1862.— Poikilis Blasius, List B. Eur., p. 8 (emend.). 

 1872. — Pcecilift Taczanowski, .Jouru. f. Oru., 1872, p. 443 (emend.) (nee Bloch-Schn., 



1801; uec Schrank, 1802; nee Hein.,1870). 

 1884. — Sitfipariis Selys-Longchamps, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1834 (p. 70) (type P. 



varius). 

 1884.— Peri2)arits Selys-Longchamps, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1884 (p. 76) (type P. 



ater). 

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