292 Mr. P. J. C. McGregor on Birds observed 



29. Acredula caudata (L.). Long-tailed Tit. 



30. Acredula caudata europ^a (Herin.). 



31. Acredula caudata macedonica Salvad. & Dresser. 

 Macedonian Long-tailed Jit. 



Long-tailed Tits are fairly abundaDt in the wooded 

 valleys and coppices, descending to the plains in winter. 

 Mr. Othmar Reiser, of the Laudesmuseum, Sarajevo, who 

 lias kindly examined my small series of specimens, refers 

 them to the varieties enumerated above. I should say that 

 the white-headed type is the least common. 



32. Parus major L. Great Tit. 



Resident, and the most abundant member of the genus. 



33. Parus lugubris Natt. Sombre Tit. 

 One observed at Bukovo, March 29, 1903. 



34. Parus c^eruleus L. Blue Tit. 



Fairly abundant, but much less so than the Great Tit. 

 In winter flights of thirty or forty may be seen in the 

 plain. 



35. iEGiTHALUs pendulinus (L.). Penduline Tit. 

 Seems to arrive about the end of April and nests in small 



numbers among the willows bordering the lower course of 

 the Dragor and other streams in the plain. The specimens 

 obtained are peculiarly vivid in colour compared with others 

 from the Dobrudja and Southern Russia, the white on the 

 head being very pure and the chestnut on the wing extremely 

 rich. At Monastir, as in Bulgaria, this bird is called by the 

 equivalent of " Water Nightingale." 



36. Sitta CiEsiA Wolf. Nuthatch. 



Several pairs haunted the beech-grove at Bukovo. All the 

 specimens which I examined were rather small, but in other 

 respects presented no peculiar characteristics. 



37. Certhia familiaris L. Tree-Creeper. 



Fairly common in the wooded meadows near the town from 

 the beginning of November till early in May. I have heard 

 the males singing in mid-April, and presume that they retire 



