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Of the sub-species not included I may name the following, 

 viz. : 



Turdus coburni, Sharpe, Bull. B.O.C. xii. p. 28 (1901), of 

 which I have examined the type, appears to me to be merely a 

 pale variety of T. iliacus. Cinclus olympicus, von Madarasz, Orn. 

 Monatsb. xi. p. 6 (1903), from Cyprus, appears to be an insular 

 form of C. cashmiriensis, and Cinclus bilkevitchi, Zarudny, Orn. 

 Jahrb. viii. p. p. 57 (1902), seems also to be very close to that 

 sub-species. 



Saxicola albicollis has been separated into two forms, the 

 eastern and western. Of these the eastern form Saxicola 

 amphileuca, Ehr. (Symb. Phys. fol. b. b. (1829) ), inhabits Asia 

 Minor, Transcaspia, Palestine, Syria, Arabia, Egypt, ranging 

 as far west as Albania, Dalmatia, and Greece, and as far east 

 probably as Persia, whereas the western form Saxicola albicollis 

 (Vieill.), Nouv. Diet. xxi. p. 424 (1818), is found west of Greece 

 to Spain, Morocco, and Algeria. The difference between these 

 two consists in the eastern form having a black line across the 

 forehead, in being as a rule rather smaller in size, and in having 

 generally the white in the plumage less tinged with pale rufous, 

 whereas the western form has the forehead white without any 

 black line, and the white portions of the plumage are more 

 tinged with rufous. It has also the under-surface of the quills 

 as a rule paler, but this character I find on examining a series 

 so variable that it can scarcely be taken into consideration. 



Of Saxicola lugens also an eastern and western form have been 

 recognised, the former as S. lugens, and the latter as S. halopkila, 

 Tristram, but I have not yet been able to examine a sufficiently 

 large series to be quite sure if this view is correct. 



Saxicola semenovi, Bianchi and Zarudny, Ann. Mus. Zool. 

 Acad. Imp. St. Petersburg, v. No. 1, pp. 187, 189 (1900), from 

 Eastern Persia, appears to be very close to, if not identical with 

 S. chrysopygia. Cyanecula discessa, von Madarasz, Term. Fuzetek, 

 xxv. p. 489 (1902), and Sylvia clara, Kleinsch. Orn. Monatsb. 

 ix. p. 167 (1901), I have not seen, but the latter appears to 

 be very close to Sylvia hortensis. Parus corsus, Kleinsch., from 

 Corsica, seems to be scarcely separable from Parus major. 

 Parus atlas, Meade Waldo, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. xii. p. 27 

 (1901), from the Atlas Mountains, and Parus moltchanovi, 

 Menzbier, Bull. B.O.C. xiii. p. 49 (1903), from the Crimea, are 

 both local forms of Parus phceonotus. Motacilla sicbpcr sonata, 

 Meade Waldo, Bull. B.O.C. xii. p. 27 (1901), is 'a form of M. 

 personata from Morocco. Cotile mauritanica, Meade Waldo, 

 Bull. B.O.C. xii. p. 2T (1901), from Morocco, is described as 



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