42 PARIDJ). 



differently coloured resident form. These differences seem to me to 

 be strong enough to treat the British Coal Titmouse as a separate race, 

 as has been done before by Messrs. Sharpe and Dresser. General 

 colour above, especially in winter, dull olive-grey ; ramp and part of 

 flanks fawn buff ; tail-feathers and quills externally margined with 

 greenish olive. In all the other details of coloration and of size 

 the British specimens are like P. ater. 



This well distinguished race seems to be confined to the British 

 Islands. 



C. Chinese Race (P. pekinensis) is a form of this species which is 

 found in Eastern Asia from the valley of the Jenesei to China inclu- 

 sive. It is distinguished by having the occipital feathers slightly 

 more elongated into a crest than is seen in European specimens. 

 In the same locality examples without the crest are also found ; 

 but it has not yet been determined whether these are tj-pical P. ater 

 or not fully adult P. pchinensis. 



This elongation of the crest-feathers takes place in birds from 

 Krasnojarsk and Jeneseisk as well as from the Ussuri river ; exam- 

 ples from Japan and the Amoor country are intermediate between 

 P. ater and P. pekinensis ; two specimens from Askold have also 

 long crest-feathers *. 



D. Himalai/an Pace (P. femodius). — Bill much more slender and 

 more compressed laterally than in P. ater ; the specimens in the 

 national collection agree with Hodgson's remark I. c. 



A specimen, labelled by Mr. W. T. Blanford Loplwphanes cemo- 

 diiis is precisely like many specimens of P. hritannicus ; but the 

 black of the throat extends over the whole fore neck, and the 

 rest of the underparts is dull ochraceous, which colour is much more 

 pronounced than in any P. ater or P. hritannicus I have seen. This 

 specimen is apparently an old bird. Culmen 0-37 inch, wing 2-3, 

 tail 1'8, tarsus 0-7-i. 



Hah. Nepal. 



P. ater. 



a. Pull. sk. Europe. Purchased. 



b. S ad. sk. ■ Sweden, Nov. 24, 1867. H. E. Dresser, Esq., 



[P.]. 



c. S ad. sk. Borregaard, Norway, March 20, F. D. Godman and 0. 



1859 (P. 6-'.). Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Antwei-p, Oct. 1872. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. ( P.l. 



e. Ad. St. France. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



f. Ad. sk. France. Gould Collection. 



g. S ad. sk. Vosges. E. Hargitt, Esq. [P.]. 

 h. 2 ad. sk. Pyrennees, April 25, 1872. A. B. Brooke, Esq. [C.]. 

 i, (S ad. sk. Saxony. Gould Collection. 



j. Ad. sk. Moravia. II. E. Dresser, Esq. 



[P.]. 



* The figure of P. peJcinensis in David et Oustalet, Oiseaux de la Chine, 

 pi. 34, exaggerates the supposed difFerences ; the mantle also is incorrectly 

 coloured, suiting neither tlie Chinese specimens nor the original descriptioa 

 of these birds. 



