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PARID#, 
Parus palustris. 
Key to Subspecies. 
A. Back grey, tinged with olive-green ...... P. p. korejewi, p. 82. 
B. Back olive-brown, much darker.......... P. p. pecilopsis p. 82. 
+ (61) Parus palustris korejewi. 
Tue TURKESTAN Marsu-Trr, 
Parus communis korejewt Zarud, & Hirms, Orn. Monatsb., x, p. 54 
(1902) (Karatau, Turkestan). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Head, nape and extreme upper back, chin and 
upper throat black; back grey, tinged with olive-rufous ; next 
to black of head on nape pure white, fading into smoky fulvous ou 
neck; below white tinged with fulvous on flanks and abdomen ; 
wing-quills brown, with silver-grey edges; coverts broadly edged 
erey. 
Measurements. Wing about 65 mm.; tail about 56-2 mm.; 
tarsus about 16 mm.; culmen about 10 mm. 
Distribution. Turkestan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan. <A rare 
straggler into extreme N.W. India. 
Nidification. A clutch of eggs taken at Sarsen, Turkestan and 
given to me by Herr M. Kuschel are indistinguishable from those 
of the British Marsh-Tit. They average about 16:0 x12°5 mm. 
and were taken on the 10th May, 1896. 
Habits. Similar to those of other races of the Marsh-Tit. 
(62) Parus palustris peecilopsis. 
THe Yunnan Marsu-Tir, . 
Lophophunes pacilopsis Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C., xiii, p. 11 (1902) 
(Chatung, W. Yunnan). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Similar to the last, but much darker olive-brown 
above and darker, duller fulvous below. 
Colours of soft parts. Not given, but appear to be the same as 
in the British bird. 
Measurements. Total length about 120 mm.; culmen about 
10 mm.; wing about 65 mm. ; tail about 52 mm.; tarsus about 
14 mm. 
Distribution. Yunnan. A specimen obtained by Col. H. H. 
Harington near Maymyo in the Kachin Hills is referable to this 
race. 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 
