14 Nicholson, Palcearctic Species of Coal- Tits. 



Mr. Hellmayr's diagnosis is as follows : Similar to/-*, ater, 

 but distinguished by an apparently well-developed crest 

 on the hinder head. Nape-patch generally mixed with 

 spots of blackish. Upper surface ashy-bluish, sometimes 

 washed with olive-colour on the lower back. Rump 

 rusty-yellowish ; otherwise resembling P. ater in tint. 

 Under surface whitish, the sides of the body washed with 

 pale rusty-yellowish colour. 



Mr. Hellmayr gives the range of P. pekinensis as 

 Southern Siberia, east of the Yenesei, to China. As 

 already mentioned in my note on P. ater, I cannot agree 

 that the birds from the Yenesei in the Seebohm collection 

 belong to P. pekinensis, but I consider that they are 

 typical P. ater. 



In the British Museum are specimens of P. pekinensis 

 from Pekin {David: SeeboJim Coll.) ; Kuatun {Rickett 

 Coll.) ; Nikolaiesk {Seebohm Coll.) ; N. Ussuri Land 

 {Seebohm Coll.) ; Chemulpo, Korea {Campbell), Kam- 

 tchatka {Seebohm Coll.). 



Parus rufipectus. 



Farus ater var. rufipectus, Severtz., " Turkestanskie Jevotnie," 



pp. 66, 134 (1873). 

 Parus ater rufipectus, Prazak, MT. Orn. Ver. IVien, vcl. 13, 



p. 175 (1894); Haitert, "Yog. Pal. Fauna," part 3, p. 359 



(1905)- 

 Parus rjtfipectus. Dresser, " Man. Pal. Birds," vol. i, p. 166 



(1902). 

 Parus {Periparus) ater rufipectus, Hellmayr, "Tierreich, Paridae," 



p. 80 (1903). 

 Periparus rufipectus, Bianchi, i.e., p. 245 ; Sharpe, " Handl. B.," 



vol 4, p. 325 (1903). 



This species, as I have said before, seems to me to be 

 a large race of P. pekinensis. It shows some affinity to 



