Manchester Memoirs, Vol. I (1906), No. 13. 



XIII. Notes on the Palaearctic Species of Coal-Tits. 



By Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., &c. 



Received and read April loth, igo6. 



During a visit to London in 1903, I obtained eleven 

 specimens of the Cyprian Coal -Tit {Parus Cypriotes of 

 Dresser), eight males and three females, which I have 

 presented to the Manchester Museum. On comparing 

 these birds with the series of Coal-Tits in the British 

 Museum, I made the following notes, which may be of 

 some interest to ornithologists. 



In 1894, an excellent series of papers on the Coal-Tit 

 {Partis ater) and its allies was published by the late 

 Mr. J. P. Prazak in the ScJiwalbe^ the Journal of the 

 Ornithological Club of Vienna, and these essays were 

 afterwards published by him in a collected form in a 

 pamphlet of 44 pages, entitled, " Einige Bemerkungen 

 Uber die Tannenmeise {Pants ater, L.) und ihr nahe- 

 stehende Formen." He recognised the following races, 

 and gave their full synonymy and geographical distribu- 

 tion. 



1. Parus ater. 



2. Parus ater britannicus. 



3. Parus ater Cypriotes. 



4. Parus ater michalowskii. 



5. Parus ater phaeonotus. 



6. Parus ater aemodius. 



7. Parus ater rufipectus. 



8. Parus ater pekinensis. 



August 15th, I god. 



