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Genus PARDALIPARUS, Selys-Lmgeh. 



Pardaliparus venustulus (Swinhoe). 

 (Plate XIV. fig. 4.) 



Parus vemistulue, Oadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 23 (1883) ; La 



louche, Ibis, 1899, p. 401. 

 Pardaliparus venustulus, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 328 (1903). 



The eggs of the White-naped Titmouse are of a blunt oval form 

 and without gloss. They are white, rather thickly speckled all over 

 with chestnut and underlying lilac. Three examples measure 

 respectively : -Go by "5 ; "66 by *5 ; -67 by *49. 



3. Kuatun, N.W. Fohkien, China, C. B. Puckett, Esq. [P.]. 



1st June {J. D. La Touche). 



Genus PARUS, Linn. 



Parus minor, Temm. &f ScJd. 



Parus minor, Gadoiv, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 15 (1883) ; Oates, Fauna 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 48 (1889) ; Tacz. Faune Orn. Siber. Orient. 

 p. 428 (1891); La Touche, Ibis, 1899, p. 401; Nehrk. Eat. 

 Eiersamml. p. 66 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l iv. p. 328 (1903). 



The eggs of the Japanese Grey Titmouse are inseparable from 

 those of P. cinereus described below. 



2. Kuatun, N.W. Fohkien, China, C. B. Puckett, Esq. [P.]. 

 21st A^pril (J. L>. La Touche). 



4. Kuatun, 28th June (J. D. La T.). C. B. Puckett, Esq. [P.]. 



1. Amoy, China {R. Swinhoe : Tris- Crowley Bequest. 



tram Coll.). 



2. Amur-land, 18th June (Tancre). Crowley Bequest. 



Parus major, Linn. 



Parus major, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. p. 146, tab. xxviii. fig. 2, a, b 

 (1845-54); Baedeker, Eier Fur. Vog. tab. 43. fig. 9 (1855-63) ; 

 Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 149, pi. xxxix. fig. i (1856) ; 

 Dresser, Birds Eur. iii. p. 79 (1871); Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 28; 

 Seebohm, Brit. Birds, i. p. 463, pi. 9 (1883) ; Gadow, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. viii. p. 19 (1883) ; Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 210, pi. 53. 

 fig. 13 (1896) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 328 (1903).. 



The eggs of the Great Titmouse are of a broad oval shape and 

 possess a slight amount of gloss. They are white, marked with 

 specks, spots, and small blotches of two shades of chestnut. In 

 many specimens the markings are evenly distributed over the shell ; 

 in others they are more dense at the large end, where they are 

 often confluent and form a rough zone or cap. A few examples are 

 so feebly marked that they appear, at first sight, to be plain white. 

 They measure from -05 to -8 in length, and from -5 to -55 in 

 breadth. 



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