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592. PARDALIPARUS ELEGANS (Lesson). 
ELEGANT TITMOUSE, 
Parus elegans LESSON, Traité d’Orn. (1831), 456; Gapow, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. (1883), 8, 22; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 224 (habits). 
Pardaliparus elegans SuarpE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 328; McGrecor and 
WorcesTER, Hand-List (1906), 94 (part). 
Pi-pit mé-tas, Manila. 
Bongao (Everett) ; Cebu (Everett, Bourns € Worcester, McGregor) ; Guimaras 
(Steere, Steere Exp.) ; Luzon (Cuming, Everett, Méllendorff, Bourns & Worcester, 
McGregor, Mearns, Bartsch) ; Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester) ; Negros (Everett, 
Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Panay (Steere Hap., Bourns & 
Worcester); Sulu (Guwillemard, Bourns & Worcester) ;* Tawi Tawi (Bourns & 
Worcester) .* 
Male.—Entire top of head and hind neck glossy black; in the center 
of hind neck a large irregular yellow spot; upper back mostly black, but 
with some large spots of pale yellow; scapulars, lower back, and rump 
olive-green ; tail-coverts black; chin, throat, chest, and sides of chest 
glossy black, separated from the black of head and neck by a broad 
lemon-yellow stripe which begins under the front of the eye and ends 
on side of neck; remainder of under parts lemon-yellow; wings black; 
inner webs of quills edged with white; most of the primaries white 
toward the tips of outer webs; secondaries and some of the primaries 
tipped with white; greater and median secondary-coverts with broad 
white tips, forming two wing-bars; rectrices black, tipped with white, 
three outer pairs with white on outer webs. Iris and bill black; feet 
and nails plumbeous. Length, about 120; wing, 65; tail, 42; culmen 
from base, 11; bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 17. 
Female.—Duller, the chin and throat dark brown instead of glossy 
black. An adult breeding female from Benguet Province, Luzon, meas- 
ures: Wing, 62; tail, 37; culmen from base, 11.5; bill from nostril, 
8.5; tarsus, 18. 
Young.—Birds of the year have the entire upper parts olive-green, 
but the yellow nuchal patch is always indicated; under parts gray to 
pale yellow, somewhat washed with olive; chin and throat more or less 
uniform with the abdomen, but the black patch beginning to show in 
older individuals; wings and tail marked as in the adult. 
“The habits of the elegant titmouse are like those of P. amabilis; it 
-feeds in leaves at the ends of branches, often back downward. Ten 
males average: Length, 110; wing, 63; tail, 37.5; culmen, 12; tarsus, 
17; middle toe with claw, 16. Four females, length, 101; wing, 59; 
tail, 35; tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 15; culmen, 11. Iris dark 
* The titmouse of Sulu and Tawi Tawi is probably not true Parus elegans. 
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