ADDENDA. 



The following species was omitted by accident from the body of 

 the ■work : — 



Page 27. Insert : — 



19 «. Paras rex. 



Parus (Machlolophus) rex, David, Ann. Set. Nat. (5) xix. no. 9, p. 4 



(1874). 

 Machlolophus res, Davicl ^- Oustakt, Ois, Chine, p. 286 (1877). 



Crown of head and sides of the neck black with a bluish shade ; 

 forehead, lores, superciliary streak, cheeks, parotid region, and nape 

 pure yellow ; a narrow black stripe from the hinder edge of the eye 

 to the nape ; upper back black, spotted with bluish ashy, and with 

 white in the vicinity of the nape ; sides and lower back bluish ashy ; 

 upper taU-coverts ashy grey, fringed with black ; throat and middle 

 of the chest and of the abdomen deep black ; the feathers of the 

 flanks which are near this wide central band at first black, then 

 becoming ashy ; wing-coverts black, the lesser ones terminated 

 with ashy grey, the median and greater ones almost pure white ; 

 quills black, all showing, with the exception of the remiges, a white 

 spot at the ends ; remiges white at the base on the outer webs, and 

 edged with white and bluish for the rest of their extent ; middle 

 quills edged with bluish ashy ; under taU-coverts whitish, shaded 

 with ashy grey and blackish ; the crest, always erect, is of pyramidal 

 form, and the feathers of the hinder edge are yellow. 



The female has a somewhat different dress from that of the male : 

 the back is green, and not bluish grey ; there are no white spots in 

 the nuchal region ; the fore neck and chest are yellowish green, 

 with some traces of black on the throat only ; the rest of the lower 

 parts are of a greenish tinge, which becomes ashy in the middle of 

 the belly ; and the yeUow of the sides of the head and of the nape is 

 a little less pure than in the male. Iris brown ; bill black ; tarsus, 

 feet, and claws bluish. Total length 0453 meti-e, tail 0-063, wing 

 (closed) 0-084, tarsus 0-018, bill from front 0-009. {David ^- 0ms- 

 talet.) 



Hah. Mountains of Western Fokien, China. 



Type. 



Add :— ^^® 1^^- ^^°"^ DEYOSCOPUS. 



Thamnocataphus, Tickell, J. A. S. Beng. xviii. p. 312 



(1849) D. ruiiventris. 



Page 134. Dryoscopus rufiventris. 



Add the synon}-my of Thamnocataphus picatus, TickeU, which has 

 been shown by Mr. Sharpe to be the same as the present species 

 (c/. Cat. B. vii. p. 324). 



