48 PAEID^. 



Pcecila melanocephala, Brehm, I. c. 



Poikilis lugubris, Bias. List £. Europ. p. 8 (18G2). 



Adult male in spring. Crown of head, nape, throat, and fore neck 

 deep soot}' black ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of neck pure white ; 

 rest of underparts dull white ; mautle, back, and lesser wiug- 

 coverts pale ashy brown ; primary-coverts and bastard wing blackish 

 brown, with narrow light edgings ; rest of Aviug-coverts, quills, and 

 tail greyish brown, with conspicuous white edgings to the outer 

 webs ; bill and feet lead-colour ; iris dark brown. 



Male in winter. General colour above ashj-, with a strong olive- 

 brown tinge ; crown of head, nape, and fore neck dull blackish brown ; 

 flanks and sides of breast tinged with fulvous ; outer web of secon- 

 daries, of the tail, and of the greater wing-coverts edged with light 

 fulvous instead of whitish. 



Female in spring. Like the male in winter plumage ; throat dull 

 blackish. In ivinter the coloration of the female is a little duller. 



Immature birds have the general colour above and the throat pale 

 olive-brown ; head a little darker ; quills and tail brown, edged 

 with fulvous ; underparts, ear-coverts, and sides of neck dull white ; 

 bill and feet horn-colour. Total length 5'o inches. 



Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, 



in. in. in. in. 



2 0-5 2-8 2-5 275 



S O-o 2-82 2-6 2-8 



cJ O-o 2-82 2-47 276 



cJ (Persia).. 0-47 2-95 2-52 2-8 



Obs. One male specimen from Shiraz has the mantle and back 

 much paler, the breast and rest of the underparts clearer white than 

 in the European specimens. 



Hab. South-eastern Europe, extending eastwards through Asia 

 Minor into Syria and Persia. 



a. Juv. sk. S.E. Europe. Purchased. 



b. 5 ad. sk. Smyrna, May 1875. Dr. Kriiper [C.]. 



c. Immat. sk. Smyrna, June 1875. Dr. Kriiper [C.]. 



(I, e. cS 2 ad. sk. Mount Olvmpus, Oct. 10, F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 

 18G9 (Dr. Kriiper). vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



f. (S ad. sk. Anascha, Taunis, Asia F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



Minor, Mai-ch 21, 1876 vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 (C. G. Batiford). 



g. S (moulting). Shiraz, 7000 feet, Jime Sir Oliver St. John [C.]. 



1870. 



46. Parus songarus. 



Parus songarus, Serertz. Turk. Jevotn. p. 134 (1873) ; id. J.f. 0, 1873, 



pp. 346, 386 ; id. Str. F. 1875, p. 423. 

 Parus sibiricus, Eadde, Reis. S. 0. Sib. ii. p. 198 (1863, tree Gmel.). 

 Precila sibirica(6'?M.?), Tacz.Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 163 (1876), 



(teste David ^- Oustal.'). 

 Poecile affinis, Prjev. in Datcson Roiclet/s Ornith. Misc. ii. p. 188 



(1877). 



