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SYXOPSIS OF THE JAPANESE SPECIES OF THE GENUS PARTIS. 



a^. Forehead browuisb white, orowu black* (sittipakus). 



6'. Larger; a hirge triangular rufous ^spot on the iuterscapilium P. variua. 



i^. Smaller; oulyanairow edge of rufous to the black of the uape.. P. caateweoreHtris. 

 a^. Forehead black, like the crown. 



ft'. Outer pair of tail-feathers to the greater extent pure white, the outer edge being 



black from the base (parus) P. minor. 



b^. Outer pair of tail-feathers uniform dark gray, like the rest, with or without 

 whitish margins, 

 c^ With a whitish nuchal spot; great wing-coverts with white lips, forming two 



wiug bauds (periparus) P. ater subsp. ? 



c^. Upper neck without a light-colored spot ; wing-coverts without white tips 

 (pcecile). 



d'. Crown dull brownish black ; longest tail-feathers averaging 52'"™ 



P. borealis. 

 #. Crown deep black with bluish gloss; lougest tail-feathers averaging GO™"'. 



P. brevirostris. 



Subgenus SITTIPARUS Selys. 



(218) Parus varius Temm. & Schl. 

 Japan Tit. Yama-gara. 



1849. — Parus varius Temm. & Schleg., Faun. Jap. Av. (p. 71, pi. xxsv). — Blakist., 

 Ibis, 1863, p. 99.-1(1, Chrysanth., 1883, Febr., p. —.—Id., Am. List B. Jap., 

 p. 15 (1884).— SwiNHOE, Ibis, 1874, p. 155.— Blakist. & Fryer, Ibis, 1878, 

 p. 2:i5.— lid, Tr. As. Soc. Jap., viii, 1880, p. 918.— ZM., ibid., x, 1882, p. 151.— 

 Seebohm. Ibis, 1879, p. 33.— Jouy, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, p. 286. 



1862.— Pflr?<s rubidus Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, p. 321. 



I am not aware that the young of this species has been described. 

 The only reference to the young I can find is the remark by Messrs. 

 Blakiston and Pryer (Ibis, 1878, p. 235) to the effect that it is "rather 

 different from the adult, but does not otherwise vary " (?). Specimens 

 of young in their first plumage are, therefore, a special desideratum. 



Parus castaneoventris Gould. 

 Formosa Tit. 



1862. — Parus castaneoventris Gould, P. Z. S., 1862, p. 280. 



li^63.^Par»8 castaneiventris Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 295. — Id., P. Z. S., 1871, p. 361. 



1883. — Parus castaneiventer Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., viii, p. 37. 



This species has recently been collected by Mr. M. Namiye, on Oki- 

 nawa Shima (Liu Kiu), a discovery which will be treated of in detail in a 

 special paper. It is smaller, and the chestnut mark behind the white 

 nape spot is nearly absent. 



* Parus {Cyanistes) cwruJeus Linn, with white forehead, azure-blue crown, and a 

 white superciliary stripe, together with its couspecies and subspecies, is confined to 

 the western portion of the Paliearctic Region. In Temmiuck's Manuel d'Oruithologie, 

 2d ed., Ill, p. 210 (1835), it is said to occur in Japan, probably on the authority of 

 some drawing; but this is evidently a mistake. "Formosa," referred to under this 

 species in Horstield and Moore's Catalogue, is a place in England. 



