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p. 82 ; Smmieh, Orn. New Engl. p. 185 (1867) ; Cmies, Key N. A. B. 



p. 81 ; Baird, Breiv., cV Eidgw. N. A. B. i. p. 105. 

 Hudson's Bay Titmouse, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. 2, p. 557. 

 Parus hudsonicus, var. littoralis, Bryant, Proc. Bost. Sue. N. H. ix. 



p. 368 (1863). 



General colour above yello-wish brown ■with a slight olive tinge ; 

 crown of head and hind neck a little pvtrer liglit brown ; wing- 

 coverts, tail, and quills dark grey, with paler greyish edgings to 

 the outer webs ; checks, ear-coverts, and breast white ; sides of neck 

 light grey ; throat and fore neck sooty brownish black ; abdomen, 

 sides of breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts rusty brown. Total 

 length 5 inches, cnlmen 0*4, wing 2-4, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-G5. 



Hah. Found all over the more northern parts of North America. 



Obs. The " specimens from the most northern localities seem to 

 be larger than those from Maine and Xova Scotia (P. littoralis., 

 Bryant), with proportionally longer tails " {Baird, Br., 8f R.). 



a,h. S 2 ad. sk. Fort Simpson, April 20, 1862. B. R. Ross, Esq. [P.]. 

 (".[$] ad. sk. North America. J. Gould, Esq. 



d. Skeleton. Pmchased. 



32. Pams cinctus. 



La Mesange a ceinture blanche, Month. H. X. Ois. v. p. 446 (1778). 

 La M(5sange de Siberie, Dauhent. PL Enl. vi. pi. 708. fig. 3 (1783). 

 Siberian Titmouse, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. p. 556 (1781-85). 

 Parus cinctus, Bodd. Tahl. PI. Enl. p. 46 (1783, e.r Eanbent.) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 192 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 232, no. 3352; Cab. J.f. O- 



1871, p. 237; Dresser, B. Eur. iii. pi. 112 ; Finsc/i, Ibis, 1877, p. 64. 

 Parus sibiricus, Gmel. Syst. Xat. i. p. 1013 (1788, e.v Lath.) ; Temm 



Man. d'Orn. p. 294 ; Sckinz, Europ. Faun. p. 220 ; Nihs. Skandin- 



Faun. i. p. 337, i. p. 414 ; Blijth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 104: 



Sundev. Svensk. Foyl. pi. 16. fig. 5. 

 Parus lugubris, Zefterst. Res. Sver. och Xorr. Lajyp. p. 120 (1821, 



descr. oriy., nee Xatterer,fide Dresser). 

 Parus lapponicus, Lundahl, Xotis. Faun, et Flor. Fenn. Fiirh. Hel- 



sinyf. 1848, pt. i. p. 1, pi. 1. fig. 1 ; Wright, Finl. Fogl. i. p. 178. 

 Pceciia sibiricus, Bp. C. A. i. p. 2.30 (1850). 

 Poecile sibirica, Cah. Mus. Hein. i. p. 91 (1850). 

 Poecile sibirica vera (Kaup), Brehm, Xaumannia, 1856, p. 369. 



Synonymy of P. ohtectus. Cab. : — 

 Poecile submicrorhynchus, Brehm, Xaumannia, 1856, p. .369. 

 Parus sibiricus {no7i Gm.), Badde, Pei^. in S.O. Sibir. ii. p. 198 (1861). 

 Poecile cincta, Su-inh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 302; Giebel,J.f. 0.1873, 



p. 421 ; Heuql.J. f. O. 1874, p. 396 ; Malm, Fauna, p. 182 ; David 



S,- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 288. 

 Parus (Poecile) obtectus, Cah. J.f. O. 1871, p. 237. 

 Parus grisescens, Sharpe ^- Dress. B. Eur. iii. sub P. cinctus (1871). 

 Poecile obtecta. Cab. J.f. O. 1872, p. 443. 

 Poecile affinis, Prjev. in Dawsoti Botrlei/'s Ornith. Misc. pt. vi. p. 188, 



sp. 85 (1877) ;■ David lV Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 289. 

 P.irus cinctus, subsp. grisescens, Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 2. 

 Poecilia obtecta, Taczan. J. f. O. 1872, p. 443. 

 Poecile sibirica, Taczan. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 363 (1876). 



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