172 Mr. II. E. Dresser's Notes on 



with a violet or j;rcenish gloss; centre of the abdomen brown- 

 ish yellow ; under tail-eoverts short and downy, brownish, 

 tipped with violet; wings blackish brown, with light brown 

 margins to the feathers; rectrices nearly black, with bluish 

 green edges, outer web of outer rectrix white ; iris dark brown ; 

 beak and legs black. Female. Greyish, the lower flanks and 

 rump violet-blue, nape light brown, the superciliary stripe 

 narrower tlian in the male ; cheeks and shoulders greyish 

 brown ; throat, breast, and belly light brownish yellow ; sides 

 light brown, the feathers near the vent tipped with blue ; 

 crissum brownish ; wings blackish brown, w ith greyish brown 

 margins to the fcatliers ; tail black, tipped with brown, the 

 outer feather externally margined with white. Male — total 

 length 4" 9'", wing 2", tail 2" IV", outer tail-feathers 1" 8^", 

 eulraen 3V". Female— total length 4" 8'", extent 6" 1'", wing 

 2", tail 2" 1'", outer tail-feathers 1" 81'". This bird was met 

 with in the pine-woods near Issik-kul, where it was seen 

 amongst the branches of the trees/' 



At page 135 he also describes a long-tailed Titmouse as new 

 under the name of Mecistura 2)oltzami ; and it is figured on 

 pi. ix. fig. 1. I do not, however, give a translation of his de- 

 scription ; for he now informs me that he has little doubt that 

 it is referable to Acredula tephronota (Giinth.) . This bird, he 

 says, was found near Astrabad and on the island of Ashir-ade 

 by Mr. Poltzara, the curator of the Kasan Museum. 



He also enumerates five species of Penduline Tits as oc- 

 curring in Turkestan, viz. jEgithalus pendulimis, JE. atrica- 

 pillus, jE. rutilans, ^. macronyx, and ^. coronatus, the last 

 foiir being described as new ; but he brought his specimens 

 of these birds with him when he paid me a visit a short time 

 ago, and then told me that he had since found that y^. atrica- 

 pillus and yE. coronatus belong to the same species, and should 

 stand under the name of JE. coronatus, and that u^. rutilans 

 is the young of JE. macronyx, under which latter name it 

 stands ; and he also informed me that Mr. Hume's JEyithalus 

 stoiiczkce is nothing but his yE. coronatus. Pie further 

 (p. 136) describes another species of Penduline Titmouse from 

 Astraehan (which does not, however, range as far as Turkestan) 



