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12. Acredula glaucogularis.* 



Orites glaucogularis, Gould, P.Z.S. 1854, p. 140; Swinh. P.Z.S. 



1871, p. 362. 

 Parus trivirgatus, Swinh. Ibis, 1860, p. 131. 

 Mt'cistura caudata, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 270. 



Mecistura swinhoei, von Pelzeln, Reis. d. Norara, Voq. pi. iii. (1865). 

 Parus glaucogularis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 234, no. 3399 (1869). 

 vEgithaliscus fidiginosus, Switi/i. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 362. 

 Orites caudatus, Py'ev. in Dawson Rowley s Ornifh. Misc. ii. p. 190. 

 Acredula ghuicogularis, Dai\ ^- Ousted. Ois. Chim', p. 291 (1877). 

 ? Mecistura fuliginosa, J'err. A'ouv. Arch. 3Ius. viii. Bull. p. 36. 

 ? Orites ouratensis, David, MS., teste Sioinh. P.Z.S. 1870, p. 430; 



id. P.Z.S. 1871, p. 362. 

 ? Acredula vinacea, David &• Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 292. 

 ? Acredula fuliginosa, David ^- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 292. 



This bird resembles A. tephronota, frona which it differs by the 

 distribution of the colours of the head. Lores, nasal region, and 

 a narrow frontal band white with an ochraceous tinge ; greater 

 part of crown glossy black, only the centre and occiput dull 

 brownish white, which colour, however, is widely separated from 

 the whitish frontal band by the black of the forehead, whilst in all 

 the other species of Acredula the whitish central part of the crown 

 is united with the whitish frontal and nasal regions ; patch on 

 the throat grey, each feather with a whitish tip. Total length 

 5 inches. 



Wing. Tail. 



* It seems probable that A. rosea is the central stock of the palffiarctic species 

 of Acredula, which have been divided as follows : — 



A. caudata (Northern form), 

 Scandinavia to N. Japan. 



A. frivirgafa (Eastern 

 A. ROSEA, form), Japan. 



England to Austria. j. glaucogularis (South- 



eastern form), China. 



A. irbii (South-western A. tephronofa (Southern 



form), Spain and form), Tm-key and 



Italy. Asia. 



