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large bill, a short wing, and is dull iu coloration ; the 

 white on the outer tail-feathers is, however, as extended as 

 in typical specimens, but this in my experience is not at any 

 time a constant character. — H. F. W.'\ 



Parus cceruleus ogliastr^ Hart. 



This Blue Tit was found an abundant resident in Crete. 



[Only a single specimen was collected, and this seems 

 to agree best with the form from Sardinia and Corsica. — 

 H. F. W.] 



-ZEgithaltis caudatus macedonicus (Dress.). 



This race of Long- tailed Tit was found to be plentiful at 

 Platea, and two (both juvenile) were shot from a family- 

 party on 14tli July. 



At Marmarice, a small family-party of Long-tailed Tits 

 met with in the pine-woods on 25th July was probably also 

 of the same race. 



[The two specimens are in juvenile plumage ; the bellies 

 are dark and the backs rust-coloured, otherwise they are 

 much like ^. c. roseus in the same plumage. An interesting 

 point is observable in the dark streak over the eye, which in 

 these specimens is black and extends to the base of the bill, 

 but it so happens that the birds have moulted in this part, 

 and these feathers are those of the first winter-plumage. 

 In ^. c. roseus this streak extends to the bill in the 

 juvenile plumage, but it is brown, Avhile in the adult it is 

 black, but does not reach the bill. The ring round the eye 

 is noted as orange-red ; Herr Reiser describes it as sulphur 

 in the adult.— iJ. F. W.] 



Lanius minor Gm. 



The Lesser Grey Shrike was met with as a plentiful 

 autumn migrant in Egypt and the Grecian Archipelago. 



^OyP^- — The passage was well under way on 25th August, 

 and although subsequently, on some days, the species was 

 quite abundant, the numbers never reached anything like 

 those of the Red-backed Shrike, and the passage was con- 

 cluded much earlier. After mid- September the Lesser Grey 

 Shrike had ceased to be plentiful, and the last record for 



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