172 PROCEEDINGS OF THE VATIONAL MUSEUM. tol. 38. 



Fusan taken November 15, 1884, appear to be referable to this 

 subspecies. They are darker, with less white, than specimens from 

 5 ezo, ;iikI are also smaller. This disposition of these birds is merely 

 provisional, the material available for comparison being much too 

 scanty to admit of accurate determination. 



Family PARIDiE. 



PENTHESTES PALUSTRIS CRASSIROSTRIS (Taczanowski). 

 THICK-BILLED MARSH-TIT. 



The collection contains three adult males of this form taken at 

 Seoul on August 21 and September 20 and 24, 1883. and an immature 

 male taken on July .">, 1883. 



PROPAROIDES VARIUS VARIUS fTemminck and Schlegel i. 

 JAPANESE TIT-MOUSE. 



The collection contains seven specimens of this species from Fnsan, 

 live males taken on October 19, 1884, and April IS, 1886, and two 

 females taken on October 12, 1SS4; and seven specimens from Seoul, 

 three males taken dune K), September 23, and October 14, 1883, and 

 four females, taken on June 12, September 21, October 14, and 

 October 20, L883. Compared with a series of eighteen specimens 

 from Yezoand Hondo, no differences can he found not attributable to 

 the somewhat different make of the skins. 



I am inclined to believe that this species is a regular winter visitor 

 from Japan, possibly occurring more abundantly at certain seasons 

 than at others. I do not know of any specimens ever having been 

 taken in Korea in the breeding season, although it is a common 

 h reeding resident on Tsushima. Specimens of this bird from the 

 islands along the southern coasts of Hondo and Kiusiu, from the 

 Linschoten and Kin Kin islands, and breeding birds from Iviusiu, 

 especially the southern part, are very desirable in order to ascertain 

 the relationship of P. v. varius with P. v. castaneoventris of Formosa 

 and Okinawashima. and with P. owst&n/i of the Seven Islands. 



ACREDULA CAUDATA MACROURA Seebohm. 

 SEEBOHMS LONG-TAILED TIT. 



Three specimens of Long-tailed Titmice from Korea and one from 

 the Amur region have puzzled me considerably. They agree per- 

 fect |\ between themselves, but differ from examples from Europe and 

 Japan in being somewhat larger, with much longer tails, and with the 

 white on the wings somewhat more restricted. From the material at 

 hand I can not find the slightest difference between typical European 

 and Japanese specimens. The birds from Korea and the Amur I have 

 referred provisionally to Seebohm's A. c. macroura, as they appear to 



