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large spots of black, pale yellow, or white ; lower back and rump 

 olive-green, towards the rump more yellow ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail-feathers deep black, all the tail-feathers with broad white tips ; 

 the three outer pairs besides these tips with large white subtermiual 

 spots to the outer web ; lesser wing-eoverts entirely black ; the 

 greater and median series and the quills deep black ; the former and 

 the secondary quills with very large white tips ; the primary-quills 

 and the primary wing-coverts with narrow tips and with narrow 

 whitish-j-ellow edgings to the outer web ; under wing-coverts white, 

 edged with yellow and mottled with blackish ; quills internally 

 edged with wliitc ; bill black ; feet bluish black. 



Ohs. Immature bii'ds and females have the back more yellow and 

 olive-grey, the white spots and the white wash getting more pro- 

 nounced in old birds, sometimes giving the back a nearly white 

 appearance. 



Total length about 7 3 inches. 



Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, 



in. in. iu. in. 



Immature 0-44 2-45 1-.55 07 



Adult 0-48 2-65 1-85 75 



Adult (Palawan) 05 2-43 l-o2 0-U8 



Adult (Manila) 05 2-45 1-52 0-G8 



Ilab. Philijipiue Islands ; hitherto found in Luzon, Guimaras, and 

 Palawan only. 



a, b, c. Ad. st. Philippine Islands. Purchased. 



d,e. Imm. or 2 sk. S.Luzon. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



/. [$]ad. sk. Manila, Luzon. Goidd Collection. 



g. Imm. sk. Guimaras. Prof. J. B. Steere [C.]. 



'h. [ cJ ] ad. sk. Palawan. Prof. J. B. Steere [C.j. 



17. Parus venustulus. 



Parus venustulus, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 133, 1871, p. 361 ; Gould, 

 B. As. pt. xxiii. ; Dm. ^- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 281. 



Adult (tj-pe of species). Intermediate in coloration between P. 

 monticoliis and P. elcgans. Crown of head, cheeks, chin, throat, 

 sides of neck, and sides of the mantle glossy blue-black ; nape and 

 centre of mantle with irregular largo white spots ; a stripe below 

 the eye and ear-coverts white ; lower back, rump, and scapulars 

 bluish grey, the former washed with white, the scapulars broadly 

 edged with black and washed with yellowish green ; wing-coverts 

 black, the greater and median series with large pale whitish-yellow 

 tips; quills brownish black, narrowly edged with greenish olive, 

 the innermost secondaries nearly black with white tips ; quills 

 below broadly edged with white ; upper tail-coverts glossy black ; 

 tail black, deeper and richer on basal half, edged with greenish grey 

 on apical portion, and tipped with yellowish ; the fifth rectrix with 

 white on inner edge, this colour increasing outwardly to the first 



