lO Nicholson, PalcEarctic Species of Coal-Tits. 



Partes mfonucJialis rnfo>iuchalis, Blyth. — Turkestan ; 

 Himalayas, from Gilgit to Gurwhal. 



Parns rufonuchalis beavatii, Jerd. — Nepal, Sikhim, 

 eastward to W. China. 



The conclusions arrived at by Dr. Hartert are, as will 

 be seen by the above summary, confirmatory of those of 

 Dr. Hellmayr. His work bears evidence of great care 

 and judgment, and in future studies of the Palaearctic Coal- 

 Tits, Hartert's essay must receive ample consideration. 



Partis ater sardus, of Kleinschmidt, was described in 

 the OrnitJiologiscJie MonatsbericJit for 1903 (p. 180). 



Another species recently described is Partes scJiwederi 

 {^Partis ater sc/izvederi, Loudon and Tschusi, Orn. Ja/ub. 

 vol. 16, p. 140, 1904). Hab. Livonia, Baltic Provinces. 

 Dr. Hartert (/.r., p. 356) does not consider this form 

 separable from true P. ater. 



The following is a list of the species of the sub-genus 

 Peripartis, or, as I prefer still to call them, Pariis ater., 

 and its immediate allies. This list is founded on the 

 recent works of Hellmayr and Hartert. 



Parus rubidiventer. 



Fariis rubidivetitris, Blyth, y. A. S. Beng., vol. 16, p. 445 (1S47). 

 Lophophanes rttbidiventris, Jerd, "B. Ind.," vol. 2, p. 274 (1863) ; 



Gates, "Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds," vol. i, p. 58 (1889); 



Hartert, "Vog. Pal. Fauna," p. 362 (1905). 

 Parus {Feriparus) riidiventris, Hellmayr, " Tierreich, Paridae," 



p. 74(1902). 

 Periparus riibidiventris, Bianchi, Anti. Mus. Zool. Acad. St. 



Fetersb., vol. 7, p. 245 (1902). 

 Feriparus rubidiventer, Sharpe, " Handl. B.," vol. 4, p. 326 



(1903)- 

 No white tips to the wing-coverts ; under surface of 

 body rusty-red on the centre of the breast and abdomen. 

 Hab. Himalaya Mountains, from Kumaon to Nepal. 



