in two Andahiciun Sierraii. 460 



Parus majok. Great Titmouse. 



The Great Tit was met with from sea-level to well up 

 San Cristobal and up to over 6000 ft. iu the Sierra Nevada^ 

 equally at home throughout this great range iu altitude. 



■^ Parus C/Eruleus. Blue Titmouse, 



Our notes ou the Blue Tit are somewhat incomplete. In 

 San Cristobal the species did not seem to frequent the pinsapo 

 forest, but was plentiful in the woods on the lower slopes 

 of the mountain and among the foothills. In the Sierra 

 Nevada it was plentiful in the middle zone. 



[One specimen (female, May 2nd, 1910, Sierra Nevada) 

 was brought home. This example is in much-worn plumage. 

 The mantle is brownish-grey, not so green as an equally- 

 worn specimen of P. c. obscurus, but the rump is green like 

 that of P. c. obscurus. The under parts are of a brighter 

 yellow than those of P. c. obscurus, and more like those of 

 P. c. C(£7'uleus, but the specimen is too much worn for proper 

 comparison. — H. F. W.^ 



"^ Parus ater vieir^e Nicholson. Peninsula Coal-Tit. 



Parus vieirce Nicholson, jVIem. & Proc. Manchester Lit. & 

 Phil. Soc. 1. iii. No. 13, p. 16 (1906— Portugal). 



San Cristobal. — The Coal-Tit was plentiful and appai'ently 

 strictly limited to the pinsapo forest. A pair obtained on 

 April 23rd had the sexual organs but slightly advanced. 

 At this date they Avere always seen in twos (presumably 

 pairs), but nesting did not seem to have commenced. On 

 April 25th, as we sat among the higher pinsapos at 

 4800 ft., a pair came up to look at us, one very noisy, 

 the other with inquisitive concern hopping down an out- 

 stretched bough to within a few feet of us. We searched 

 liigli and low for a nest, without success; probably there was 

 not one, for the birds, unmolested, took themselves off when 

 their curiosity was satisfied. 



For the most part the birds were busily engaged in prising 

 off the tender red buds of the pinsapo in search of insects. 



Sierra Nevada. — In the pine trees of the middle zone the 

 species seemed plentiful ; the sexual organs of a male shot 



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