Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the Genus Acredula. 301 



Parus caudatus, Savi, Oru. Tosc. ii. p. 20 (1829); Gould, B. 

 Eur. iii. pi. 157 (1837). 



Orites caudatus, Dcgl. & Gerbe, Orn. Eur. ii. p. 571 (1867) pt. 



Hah. British Islands [Auctt. Britt. passim), France {Jaubert), 

 Lombardy {Bettoni), Tuscany (Savi). 



I have carefully examined the descriptions and figures in the 

 works above quoted, and I think there can be no doubt that the 

 birds found in the localities mentioned will prove to be identically 

 the same as our English Bottle-Titmouse, though I have un- 

 fortunately been unable to obtain specimens from any of the 

 countries named. 



I think also that A. rosea will ultimately prove to be the bird 

 inhabiting the following localities ; but no precise information 

 having been published by the respective authors, it is difficult to 

 say for certain. 



Spain, Lilford, Ibis, 1866, p. 383. 



Belgium, Selys-Longchamps, Faune Beige, p. 103. 



Luxembourg, La Fontaine, Faune Luxemb. p. 109. 



Sicily, Malherbe, Faune Orn. Sic. p. 112. 



In Belgium and Luxembourg it is most probable that A. cau- 

 data is a winter visitant. 



3. Acredula trivirgata. Japanese Bottle-Titmouse. 



Parus [Megisturus) trivirgatus, Temm. & Schl., Faun. Jap. 

 Aves, p. 60, pi. 34 (1850). 



Acredula trivirgata, Cab., Mus. Hein. i. p. 90, note (1850). 



MiddendorfF considers this bird to be a variety of the Siberian 

 form ; but the original describers state that every one of a large 

 number of specimens showed the dark stripe on the side of the 

 head as in tjoung examples of the European species ; and we 

 may therefore conclude that this stripe is constant. The colours 

 also, though distributed as in our British bird, are altogether 

 lighter, and the measurements of the bird are much less. It 

 does not appear to occur in the northern islands of Japan ; for it 

 was not obtained by Mr. Henry Whitely during his visit to 

 Japan [cf. Ibis, 1867, p. 198), and his father tells me that it 

 was not even once seen. Nor is it included in Capt. Blakiston's 

 list of the birds of Northern Japan {cf. Ibis, 18G2, p. 321). I 



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