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595. PARDALIPARUS MINDANENSIS (Mearns). 
MINDANAO TITMOUSE, 
Pardaliparus elegans mindanensis MEARNS, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 
18, 8. 
Pardaliparus mindanensis MCGREGOR and WoRcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 94. 
Kah-too-reé-nay, Bagobo of Mount Apo. 
Mindanao (Mearns, Clemens). 
Adult male-—‘“Similar to Pardaliparus elegans elegans, but smaller 
with a relatively smaller bill; coloration heavier and yellower, the black 
of chin and throat extending to the chest; whitish spots of upper wing- 
coverts and tail-feathers washed with yellow. Length, 117; alar expanse, 
210; wing, 67; tail, 41; culmen, 9.5; tarsus, 16; middle toe with claw, 
15.” (Mearns.) 
The Mindanao titmouse differs from the species found in more northern 
localities in the characters given by Mearns. A male from Lake Lanao 
measures: Wing, 63; tail, 37; culmen from base, 10; bill from nostril, 
8; tarsus, 15. A female, wing, 62; tail, 36; culmen from base, 10; 
bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 15. 
596. PARDALIPARUS AMABILIS (Sharpe). 
PALAWAN TITMOUSE, 
Parus amabilis SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 338, pl. 
5, fig. 2; Gapow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 8, 22. 
Pardaliparus amabilis SHarRpPE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 327; McGrecor and 
WorceEstTER, Hand-List (1906), 93. 
Balabae (Steere, Everett); Palawan (Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns 
é& Worcester, Celestino, White). 
Adult male.—Entire head, neck, chin, throat, and chest glossy blue- 
black; neck bordered behind by a mantle of clear canary-yellow; back 
and rump lavender-gray; tail-coverts black; breast and remainder of 
under parts bright lemon-yellow; wings and tail black; greater and 
median coverts and primary-coverts broadly tipped with white; pri- 
maries with small white tips or marks on outer webs; secondaries with 
wider white tips and pale gray edges; inner webs of quills edged with 
white; rectrices broadly tipped with white and all but the center pair 
with outer webs white, but this much reduced in pair next the center 
pair. Wing, 72; tail, 46; culmen from base, 10.5; bill from nostril, 7; 
tarsus, 16. ' 
Adult female.—Black of head and throat much duller than in the 
male; yellow of the mantle reduced to a narrow band; remainder of 
the back olive-green, somewhat mixed with lavender-gray on rump; 
white marks on wings and tail much smaller than in the male. Wing. 
70; tail, 44; culmen from base, 10.5; bill from nostril, 7; tarsus, 16. 
“Young.—Very different from the adult. It is brown above with an 
