ON THE GEOGEAPHICAL FOEMS OF THE PHILIPPINE 

 ELEGANT TITMOUSE, PAEDALIPARUS ELEGANS 

 (LESSON), WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW 

 SUBSPECIES. 



By Edgar xVlexander Mearns, 



Associate in Zoolociij, I'riifcd Sfnfcs National Museum. 



As a whole, including its subspecies, Pardallparus elegans ranges 

 from the islands of Tawi Tawi and Sulu, south of the Sulu Sea, 

 north through the middle Philippine Islands to the Babuj^anes 

 Islands (Calayan and Camiguin, north of Luzon), or, approximately, 

 from the Hth to the 20th degree of north latitude and from the 120th 

 to the 127th degree of east longitude. It has not been recorded from 

 the eastern islands, Samar, Leyte, Bohol, and the Dinagat group ; and 

 west of the Sulu Sea, on the islands of Palawan and Balabac, it is 

 replaced by a distinct species, Pardallparus amabilis (Sharpe) , which 

 has no yellow band on the side of the head and neck, which are en- 

 tirely black. 



The species Pardallpa^'us elegans was described by Lesson in the 

 year 1831. Subsequently three additional forms of it, mindanensis^ 

 albescens., and edithw^ were described by Mearns and McGregor; of 

 these, the last two were considered as full species until Hellmayr^ 

 placed them in their true relation as subspecies of Pardallparus ele- 

 gans. In the present paper three additional subspecies are described 

 as follows: 



PARDALIPARUS ELEGANS PANAYENSIS, new subspecies. 

 I'ANAY TITMOUSE. 



Parns elegans Steere, List Birds and INIamni. Steere Expedition, 1890, p. 21 

 (part; Panay). — Wokcester and Bourns, Proe, U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, 

 1898, p. 560 (part; Panay). 



Pardallparus elegans McGregor and Worcester, Hand-list Birds Philip- 

 pine Islands, 1900, p. 94 (part; Panay).— McGregor, Manual of Philip- 

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



Ti/pe-s peel men.— Adult male, Cat. No. 233639, U.S.N.M.; col- 

 lected on the Island of Panay, Philippine Islands, November 14, 1890, 

 by D. C. Worcester and F. S. Bourns. (Original number, 1395.) 



1 Genera Avium, pt. 18, 1911, pp. 15, 16, and 32. 



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