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595. PARDALIPARUS MINDANENSIS (Mearns). 

 MINDANAO TITMOUSE, 



Pardaliparus elegans mindanensis MEAENS, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 



18, 8. 

 Pardaliparus mindanensis MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 94. 



Kah-too-ree-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 SHARPS, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 338, pi. 



5, fig. 2; GADOW, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 8, 22. 

 Pardaliparus amabilis SHARPE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 327; McGREGOR and 



WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 93. 



Balabac (Steere, Everett) ; Palawan (Whitehead, Platen, Steere Escp., Bourns 

 d 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 



