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brown; legs and feet slaty blue to black; bill black; nails gray. We 

 found this species breeding in Cebu in the month of June." (Bourns 

 and Worcester MS.) 



593. PARDALIPARUS ALBESCENS McGregor. 

 WHITE-BACKED TITMOUSE. 



Parus elegans GADOW, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 8, 22 (part); MC- 

 GREGOR, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1903), 1, 11. 



Pardaliparus elegans SHARPE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 328 (part) ; MCGREGOR 

 and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 94 (part). 



Pardaliparus albescens MCGREGOR, Phil. Jour. Sci. ( 1907 ) , 2, sec. A, 293. 



Masbate (McGregor); Ticao (McGregor). 



Specific characters. Similar to P. elegans Lesson, but with little or 

 no olive-green on upper parts, and the white on scapulars and back much 

 more extensive, to a large extent replacing the black. Male (type), 

 wing, 63; tail, 38; culmen from base, 11; bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 17. 



594. PARDALIPARUS EDITH/E McGregor. 

 EDITH'S TITMOUSE, 



Pardaliparus elegans MCGREGOR, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 27; MC- 

 GREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (190fi), 94 (part). 

 Pardaliparus edithce MCGREGOR, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 294. 



Calayan (McGregor) ; Camiguin N. (McGregor). 



Male. Top of head, sides of neck and mantle glossy blue-black ; an 

 irregular white patch in center of nape; a number of large white spots 

 on mantle ; back and rump w gray, washed with olivaceous ; upper tail- 

 coverts glossy black; chin, throat, and fore breast dead black, forming 

 a large triangular patch, bounded above by a broad band of white. 

 slightly washed with yellow, which extends under eye across ear-coverts 

 onto side of neck; rest of lower parts pale lemon-yellow, washed with 

 olivaceous on sides of neck and abdomen and on flanks; wings glossy 

 black; primaries narrowly edged with gray on their outer webs and 

 with white on the inner; greater and median coverts with white spots 

 at tips (much smaller than in P. elegans and not forming bands as in 

 that species); secondaries tipped with white; tail black with white 

 markings as in P. elegans, but the white tips much smaller and white 

 on outer webs of ^wo outer pairs of rectrices. Bill black except basal 

 third which is horn-blue; legs dull blue; nails horn-brown. Length, 

 122; wing, 67; tail, 43; cnlmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 10; 

 tarsus, 18 ; middle toe with claw, 17. 



Female. Similar to the male, but somewhat duller and upper parts 

 more olive-green. Wing, 63; tail, 38; culmen from base, 12; bill from 

 nostril, 9; tarsus, 18. 



