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262. SUBSP. PARUS TENERIFF.E. 



Parus teneriffw, Lesson, Traite d'Orn. i. p. 456 (1831) ; Dresser, ix. 

 p. 127, pi. 660, fig. 2 ; P. vwlaceus, Bolle J.f.O. 1854, p. 455. 



$ ad. (Teneriffe). Eesembles P. ultramarinus but is rather larger, 

 brighter in tone of colour, and lacks the white margins to the secondaries 

 and wing-coverts, the wing being plain blue. Culmen 0*45, wing 2'5, tail, 

 2' 15, tarsus 0'8 inch. Sexes similar. 



Hob. Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Gomera in the Canaries. 



Frequents both tree- and bush-growth from the coast to an 

 altitude of 4,300 feet, and is most commonly seen in the fruit 

 gardens. In habits it does not differ from P. cceruleus, and like 

 that species places its nest in the hole of a tree or wall or in 

 any convenient nook or cranny, and deposits in June 4 to 5 

 eggs, which resemble those of P. cceruleiis, but are a trifle larger 

 and more boldly blotched. 



263. SUBSP. PARUS PALMENSIS. 



Pants palmensis, Meade-Waldo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, iii. p. 490 

 (1889). id. Ibis. 1889, pi. xvi ; Dresser, ix. p. 129, pi. 660, fig. 1. 



Ad. (Palma). Kesembles P. ultramarinus but has the entire abdomen, 

 excepting the sides, pure white ; secondaries and wing-coverts tipped with 

 white. Culmen 0'45, wing 2*5, tail 2'3, tarsus 0'75 inch. 



Hal. Island of Palma, Canaries. 



Frequents the pine-woods and laurel-thickets up to an 

 elevation of 5,000 feet, and does not frequent gardens or 

 chestnut-groves. Like its congeners it breeds in holes of trees, 

 but much earlier, late in March or early in April, and deposits 

 only 3 or 4 eggs, which are white spotted and blotched with 

 red. 



264. SUBSP. PARUS OMBRIOSUS. 



Parus ombriosus, Meade-Waldo, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6. v. 

 p. 103 (1890) ; id. Ibis, 1890, pi. xiii ; Dresser, ix. p. 131, pi. 661. 



Ad. Kesembles P. ultramarinus but has only a band across the forepart 

 of the back slate-blue, the rest of the back and rump being green, darker 

 in tint than in P. cceruleus ; primaries narrowly bordered, and secondaries 

 tipped with white. Culmen 0'4, wing 2-5, tail 2 -25, tarsus 075 inch. 



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