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10. Elbeuf, France (Noury : Hargitt Seebohm Coll. 



Coll.). 



11. Pomerauia, 10th May ( T. Holland). Seebohm Coll. 



12. Pomerauia, 13th May (T. H.). Seebohm Coll. 

 8. Pomerania, loth May (T. H). Seebohm Coll. 



Cyanistes persicus (Blanf.). 



Parus (Cyanistes) persicus, Blanf. Ibis, 1873, p. 89 ; id. East. Pers. 



p. 230, pi. xvi. tig. 2 (1876). 

 Parus persicus, Gadoic, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 14 (1883). 

 Cyanistes persicus, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 333 (1903). 

 Parus casruleus persicus, Witherby, Ibis, 1903, p. 530. 



Two eggs of the Persian Blue Titmouse resemble those of 

 C. cceruleus. 



2. Dasht-i-Arjan, S.W. Persia (6700 II. F. Witherby, Esq. [P.]. 

 ft.), 9th April. 



Cyanistes ultramarinus (Bonap.). 



Cyanistes ultramarinus, Baedeker, Bier Bur. Vbg. tab. 43. fig. 12 



(1855-63) ; id. J.f. O. 1856, p. 33, tab. ii. fig. 14; Sharpe, Hand-l. 



iv. p. 334 (1903). 

 Parus ultramarinus, Salvin, Bois, 1859, p. 310. 

 Parus teneritfb, Dresser, Birds Eur. iii. p. 139, part. (1871) ; Gadow, 



Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 14, part. (1883) ; Irby, Orn. Str. Gibr. 



2nd ed. p. 72 (1895) ; Nehrk. Eat. Eiersamml. p. 66 (1899). 



Eggs of the Ultramarine Titmouse in the Collection are of a 

 regular oval form and devoid of gloss. One is white, marked equally 

 all over with specks and spots of two shades of chestnut-brown, 

 while others are more heavily blotched towards the blunt end. 

 They measure -58 by -47. 



1. Algeria (O. Salvin). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Morocco, 6th May. Crowley Bequest. 



Cyanistes teneriffae (Less.). 

 (Plate XIV. fig. 6.) 



Parus teneriffae, Dresser, Birds Eur. iii. p. 139, part. (1871), ix. 



(Suppl.) p. 127 (1895) ; Gadmv, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 14, part. 



(1883) ; Reid, Ibis, 1887, p. 433. 

 Cyanistes teneriffas, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 334 (1903). 



The eggs of the Canarian Blue Titmouse are of a pointed oval 

 form and devoid of gloss. They are white, speckled and spotted, more 

 thickly at the broad end than elsewhere, with chocolate-brown. In 

 some specimens the smaller half of the egg is almost unmarked. 

 Five specimens measure from "61 to *66 in length, and from - 48 to 

 •5 in breadth. 



5. Canary Islands. Capt. Savile G. Reid [P.]. 



6. Tenerife, March (R. Gomez). Crowley Bequest. 

 4. Tenerife. Crowley Bequest. 



