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down on the sides of the neck. Median and greater wing- 

 coverts with large white spots at the ends, which, on the 

 central and inner greater coverts, are surrounded by a 

 small edging of rusty yellow, and, as well as the primary- 

 coverts, show an olive-brownish outer edge. Primaries 

 whitish, the inner ones, as well as the secondaries, olive- 

 greenish, the innermost secondaries more edged with 

 brown. Tail feathers externally edged with olive-grey or 

 brownish. The throat-patch often extends over part of 

 the chest. Middle of under surface of body white ; the 

 sides of the body, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 washed with fulvous rust-colour, the latter less strongly. 

 Hab. Persia and Southern Transcaspia. 



Parus moltchanowi. 



Parus moltchanoivi, Menzbier, Bull. Brit. Orn. Ciub, vol. 13, 

 p. 49, (1903); Dresser, "Man. Pal. Birds," vol. i, app., 

 p. 885 (1903). 



Pants ater moltchanowi, Hartei t, " Vog. Pal. Fauna," part 3, 

 p. 360 (1905). 



In this species the back is said to be of the same 

 colour as in P. ater, but of a somewhat lighter grey, the 

 under-surface of the body with scarcely any tint on the 

 sides. Wings and tail as long as in P. viicJuilozvskii, the bill 

 being much longer and slenderer (cf Hartert, t.c. p. 360). 



Hab. Mountains of Southern Crimea, 



Parus derjugini. 



Periparns ater var. derjugini, Sarudny and Loudon, Orti. MB., 



vol. II, p. 129 (1903). 

 Parus ater derjugini, Hartert, "Vog. Pal. Fauna," part 3, p. 360 



(1905)- 

 This form is said to differ from typical P. ater, in its 

 longer and heavier bill, and there is a mixture of greyish- 

 brown in the colour of the back. 



