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Breeding Range: Cyprus. 



This dark race is found in the pine forests in the mountains and 

 must be numerous in the Troodos range, where Glaszner found it nesting 

 in May in stone heaps, holes of walls etc. 



Eggs 5, rather thickly spotted and blotched with reddish brown or 

 maroon, especially at the big end, where they form a zone. Average 

 size of 12 eggs (9 by Hartert in Hit. and 3 by the writer), 16.13x12.6 

 mm.. Max. 18.4x12.6 and 18x13.2, Min. 14.8x12.5 and 15.5x12. 



e. Crimeau Coal Tit, P. ater moltehanoTi Menzb. 



P. ater moltcha?iovi Menzb. Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 360. 

 Breeding Range: Mountain forests of the S. Crimea. 



f. Caucasian Coal Tit, P. ater michalowskii Bogd. 



P. ater michalowskii Bogd. Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 360. 



Breeding Range: S. Caucasus. 



Resident in the mountain forests up to the tree limit. Eggs 8, 

 laid in May. 



[In N. Africa two races are found, P. ater atlas Meade -Waldo, 

 which inhabits the forest region of the Maroccan Atlas from about 6000 ft. 

 up to the tree limit, and P. ater ledouci Malh. which is resident in the 

 forests of cork oak and Aleppo pine in northern Algeria and Tunis, 

 breeding in holes in the ground early in April and laying 8 — 9 eggs. 

 Eggs figured by Dresser, pi. — , fig. 35. Average size of 9 eggs taken 

 on April 7, 15.1x12.1 mm.. Max. 15.5x12.1, Min. 14.5x12. P. 

 ater phaeonotus Blanf. is resident in Persia and S. Transcaspia.] 



93. Crested Tit, Parus cristatus L. 



Geographical Races. 



a. Scotch Crested Tit, P. cristalus seotiens (Prai). 



Eggs: Hewitson, I Ed. I, pi. CXXXIII; II Ed. I. pi. XXXI, fig. 3; 

 III Ed. I, pi. XXXIX, fig. 3. Seebohm, Br. Birds, pi. 9; id. Col. Fig. 

 pi. 53. Frohawk, Br. Birds, I, pi. Ill, fig. 82. 



Nest: 0. Lee, II, p. 104. 

 Farns cristatus L. Newton, ed. Yarrell, I, p. 499. Saunders, Man. 

 p. 111. LopJiophanes cristatus (Ij.). Dresser, Birds of Europe, III, p. 151 

 and Man. Pal. Birds, p. 180 (part.) P. cristatus scotica (Praz). Hartert, 

 Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 365. 



Breeding Range: Strathspey, Scotland. 



Harvie Brown describes the breeding range of this interesting bird 

 in Scotland as restricted to an area about 30 miles in length, and varying 



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