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brown; legs and feet slat}- blue to black; bill black; nails gray. We 

 found this species breeding in Cebu in the month of June." {Bourns 

 and Worcester MS.) 



593. PARDALIPARUS ALBESCENS McGregor. 

 "WHITE-BACKED TITMOtJSE. 



Parus elegans Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 8, 22 (part); Mc- 

 Gregor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1903), 1, 11. 



PardaUparus elegans Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 328 (part) ; McGreqob 

 and Worcester, Hand-List (1900), 94 (part). 



PardaUparus albescens McGregor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 293. 



Masbate (McGrejror) ; Ticao (McGregor). 



Specific characters. — Similar to P. elegans Lesson, but with little or 

 no olive-green on upper parts, and the white on scapulars and back much 

 more extensive, to a large extent replacing the black. Male (type), 

 wing, 63; tail, 38; culmen from base, 11; bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 17. 



594. PARDALIPARUS EDITH/E McGregor. 



EDITH'S TITMOUSE. 



PardaUparus elegans McGregor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 27; Mc- 

 Gregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 94 (part). 

 PardaUparus edithce McGregor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 294. 



Calayan ( McGregor ) ; Camiguin N. ( McGregor ) . 



Male. — Top of head, sides of neck and mantle glossy blue-black; an 

 irregular white patch in center of nape; a number of large white spots 

 on mantle; back and rump gray, washed with olivaceous; upper tail- 

 coverts glossy black; chin, throat, and fore breast dead black, forming 

 a large triangular patch, bounded above by a broad band of white, 

 slightly washed with yellow, which extends under eye across ear-coverts 

 onto side of neck; rest of lower parts pale lemon-yellow, washed with 

 olivaceous on sides of neck and abdomen and on flanks; wings glossy 

 black; primaries narrowly edged with gray on their outer webs and 

 with white on the inner; greater and median coverts with white spots 

 at tips (much smaller than in P. elegans and not forming bands as in 

 that species) ; secondaries tipped with white; tail black with white 

 markings as in P. elegans, but the white tips much smaller and white 

 on outer webs of two outer pairs of rectrices. Bill black except basal 

 third which is horn-blue; legs dull blue; nails horn-brown. Length, 

 122; wing, 67; tail, 43; culmen from base, 13; bill from nostril, 10; 

 tarsus, 18 ; middle toe with claw, 17. 



Female. — Similar to the male, but somewhat duller and upper parts 

 more olive-green. Wing, 63; tail, 38; culmen from base, 12; bill from 

 nostril, 9; tarsus, 18. 



