1. PARU8. 51 



r. f? ad. sk. Stockliolm, Nov. 9. ruichased. 



s. 2 >^d. .-k. Stockliolm, Oct. 18. Purchased. 



t. Ad. sk. Belgium, May 17. Purchased. 



«. Ad. sk. France. Purchased. 



V, to. Ad. St. France. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. TP. 



X. Ad. sk. Mongeron. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P. 



y. Ad. sk. Bordeaux. Gould Collection. 



s. 5 ad. sk. Wallachia. H. E. Dresser, Esq. [P.]. 



a'. 2 ad. sk. Turkey, April 20, H. E. Dresser, Esq. [P. j. 



18G8. 



b', cJ ad. sk. Asia Minor, Guiksu, Gould Collection. 



November (liobson). 



c', d' . Skeletons. England. Purchased. 



e' . Skull. England. Purchased. 



/'. Skull. S. Germany. Dr. Giiuther. 



SubsiDecies a. Parus borealis. 

 A. Western Race. 



Parus cinereus montanus, Baldenst. Neue Alpina, ii. p. 217 (1829). 



Parus borealis, Seh/s-Longch. Bull. Ac. Roy. Bnuelles, 1843, p. 2 

 Sundev. SvensJc. Fog!, pi. 16. fig. 7 ; Wright, Finl. Fogl. i. p. 180 

 Nilsson, Skcindin. Faun. i. p. 419 ; Scdvad. Faun. Ital. ii. p. 69 

 Dresser, B. Eur. iii. pi. 109 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 32. 



Poecila borealis, Bp. C. A. i. p. 230 (1850). 



Parus lugubris, Fairmaire, Rev. Zool. 18.30, p. 276 (nee batterer, Jide 

 F)resser). 



Parus fruticeti, Walletigr. Nmonannia, p. 141 (18o4). 



Parus alpestris, Bailly, Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Savoie, 1851, p. 22 ; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 232, no. 3350. 



Poecila alpestris, Brehm, Kaumannia, 1855, p. 286. 



Poecila assimilis, Brihm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 286. 



Poecila salicaria alpina, 1 



PcEcila salicaria borealis, \ Brehm, Naumannia, 1856, p. 370. 



Pcecila salicaria assimilis, ) 



Parus baldensteinii, De 6'alis, Mem. Soc. H. N. Grisons, p. 106 (1861). 



pS SSS' 1 ^^-"'^' ^^^ ^- ^- p- « (^^•^^> 



Pcecile palustris, Degl. Sf Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 565 (1867). 



B. Eastern Race (P. kamtscbalkensis). 



Poecila kamtschatkensis, Bp. C. A. i. p. 230 (1850). 



Parus borealis, Middend. Reis. NO. Sibir. ii. p. 115 (1851, 7iec Selys). 



Parus palustris, var. borealis, Schrenck, Reise im Armirl. i. p. 307 



(\mO,nec Sely.s). 

 Parus palustris, Sicinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 331. 

 Parus kamtschatkensis, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 207, 1870, p. 437, 



1871, p. .362; Dresser, B. Eur. iii. pi. 110 (1873). 

 Pcecile baicalensis, Sicinh. Ann. ^- Mag. N. H. 1871, p. 257. 

 Pcecile brevirostris, Taczanotcski, J. f. 0. 1872, p. 444. 

 Parus palustris, subsp. camtschatkensis, Seebohm, His, 1871, p. 32. 

 Pcecila kamtschatkensis, Taczan. J.f. O. 1872, p. 443. 



A. Western Race (P. borealis). 

 Crown of liead never so glossj- black as in P. palustris, but always 



