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On tlte Irish Coal- Titmouse. 



une(h), which has a wide range in the jMediterrancan region 

 and is found in the ncighhourhood of Killarncy as well as in 

 Algeria. 



PxVRUS HIBERNICUS. 



Parus hiberniciis Ogilvie-Grant, BuH. B. O. C. xxvii. p. 36 

 (1910) ; id. Country Life, xxix. no. 773, p. 99, figs., 21st 

 Jan., 1911; Witherhy, in Withcrby's Brit. Birds, iv. p. 283 

 (1911). 



The following comparison shews clearly the priiicijial 

 differences in plumage between typical examples of the 

 British and Irish Coal-Titmice : — ■ 



Parus britannicns 

 (PI. X. fig. 3). 



Head and neck glossy bliie-Llack, 

 the light patches of leathers on the 

 sides of the head and neck and the 

 nuchal si^ot %vJiite. 



Back olive-grey. 



Rump and upper tail-coverts 

 washed with brownish fawn-colour, 

 not forming a marked contrast 

 with the back. 



Breast and belly dull whttish or 

 grcyish-xvliite. 



Sides of the body and flanks 

 fawn-colonr. 



Par lis liibernicus 

 (PI. X. figs. 1, 2). 



Head and neck glossy blue-black, 

 the light patches of feathers on the 

 sides of the head and neck and the 

 nuchal spot pale mui^tard-ycllow. 



Back olive-grey, washed with 

 yellowish cinufimou-colour. 



Bump and upper tail-coverts 

 china mon-colour,\\\ marked contrast 

 with the back. 



Breast and belly whitish, 7rashe(l 

 with pale vmstard-yelhno. 



Sides of the body and flanks 

 cinnamon-colour. 



The Plate (PI. X.), which has been drawn by ]Mr. F. W. 

 Frohawk, shews the differences between freshly killed 

 examples of the British and Irish Coal-Titmice very clearly, 

 but it should be noted that in the most typical Irish birds 

 the flanks are often of a brighter cinnamon in freshly killed 

 examples. 



