NO. 2142. THE PHILIPPINE ELEGANT TITMOUSE— MEARNS. 59 



PARDALIPARUS ELEGANS SULUENSIS, new subspecies. 



SULU TITMOUSE. 



Parus elegans Gtjillemaed, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1885, p. 264 (Sulu). — 

 WoECESTEB and Bourns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, 1898, p. 560 

 (part; Sulu). 



Pardaliparus elegans McGkegok and Wobcestee, Hand-List Birds Philip- 

 pine Islands, 1906, p. 94 (part; Sulu). — McGeegoe, Manual of Philip- 

 pine Birds, 1909, p. 605 (part; Sulu). 



Type-specimen.— KdM\.t male, Cat. No. 233279, U.S.N.M. ; collected 

 on the Island of Sulu, Philippine Islands, September 9, 1891, by D. 

 C. Worcester and F. S. Bourns. (Original number, 1387.) 



Suhspeciflc characters. — This form is closest to Pardaliparus ele- 

 gans guirrharasensis and P. e. mindanensis. The upper parts are more 

 distinctly greenish than in any other form of P. elegans. The yellow 

 parts (chest, abdomen, crissum, sides of head and neck, and nuchal 

 patch) are a trifle paler and more greenish yellow than in mindanensis 

 and guimarasensis, and the feathers of the mantle have pale yellowish 

 green central or apical spots, suggesting the pattern of P. e. albescens; 

 but the scapulars are unspotted grayish green. The wliite or whitish 

 wmg-spots are of medium size and very faintly washed with yellow. 



Measurernents of type (adult male). — Wing, 61; tail, 35; culmen, 

 9..5; tarsus, 16. 



The known forms of Pardaliparus elegans now stand as follows: 



PARDALIPARUS ELEGANS ELEGANS (Lesson). 

 ELEGANT TITMOUSE. 



Parus elegans Lesson, Traite d'Ornith., 1831, p. 456 (no locality; the type 

 is from the Philippines; compare Pucheran, Rev. Mag. Zool. (2), vol. 6, 

 1854, p. 68). 



Parus quadrwittatns Lafeesnaye, Rev. Zool., vol. ?>, 1840, p. 129 ("in Ma- 

 nilla aut in India "). 



Geographical range. — Islands of Luzon and Mindoro. 



PARDALIPARUS ELEGANS MINDANENSIS Mearns. 



MINDANAO TITMOUSE. 



Pardaliparus elegans mindanensis Meabns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 18, 1905, p. 8 (Mount Apo, Mindanao, Philippine Islands). 



Geographical range. — Island of Mindanao. 



PARDALIPARUS ELEGANS ALBESCENS (McGregor). 



WHITE-BACKED TITMOUSE. 



Pardaliparus albescens McGeegor, Philippine .Tourn. Sci., vol. 2, 1907, p. 293 

 (Ticao Island). 



Geographical range. — Islands of Ticao, Masbate, Cebu, and Negros. 



