BANGS: BIRDS FROM THE LIU KIU ISLANDS. 267 



Lanius bucephalus Temm. & Schl. 



One adult 9 from Ishigaki, May 10, 1899. I have compared this skin with 

 an extensive series Irom Japan, and find it identical with mainland birds of 

 the same sex in corresponding plumage. 



Parus stejnegeri,^ sp. nov. 

 Type. — Mas. Comp. Zocil., No. 37,392. 



Three specimens from Ishigaki, adult $ February 27, adult 9 June 1, and 

 a nestling June 7. 



Characters. — Not nearly related to any known species ; general coloration 

 gray-blue, black, and white ; under tail coverts mostly black ; outer rectrices 

 with no white, except a very narrow tip on the outer pair ; no white patch on 

 nape, a few feathers of this region with partly concealed white spots only 

 noticeable when the feathers are disturbed ; general coloration of nestling 

 greenish and dull yellow, showing the probable affinities of this species to some 

 of the yellow and green titmice, such as P. jerdoni, P. inseparatus, etc., which 

 have black under tiiil coverts and but little white in the tail. 



Color. — Adult $ type, a large white auricular patch ; rest of head, throat, 

 jugulum, and neck glossy blue-black ; a few feathers on middle of hind neck 

 with small semi-concealed white spots ; back, rump, and upper tail coverts 

 dark plumbeous, slightly paler on lower rump ; scapulars and broad edgings 

 to greater and lesser wing coverts pluuibeous ; some of the greater coverts 

 tipped with drab-gray, forming a broken and inconspicuous wing bar; rest of 

 wing grayish black, primaries edged with light plumbeous, secondaries with 

 greenish gray, and tertials rather more broadly on outer webs with grayish 

 white ; primary coverts greenish gray ; a broad black stripe down middle of 

 under parts, from jugulum to under tail coverts ; sides and flanks dull olive 

 gray, much paler and more drabby along edges of central black stripe and 

 below the black of jugulum and sides of neck ; under tail coverts black, slightly 

 edged and tipped with dark plumbeous, one or two of the shortest lateral ones 

 a little marked with white ; rectrices, below blue-black, above, broadly edged 

 on outer webs with dark plumbeous, the central pair mostly of this color, on 

 both webs ; two outer rectrices with very narrow white tips, 2 mm. deep ; 

 bend of wing black ; under primary coverts black tipped with white ; axUlas 

 mostly white ; under sides of primaries grayish white on edges of inner webs. 



Adult 9 > topotype. No. 37,393, similar in markings to the male, all the colors 

 duller and lateral under tail coverts more noticeably marked with white. 



Nestling, topotype, about two-thirds grown, auricular patch olive yellow ; 

 head, back, and throat dusky olive green, darkest on top of head and sides of 

 throat ; a blackish line down middle of belly ; sides, flanks, and under tail 



1 Named in honor of Dr. Leonliard Stejneger. 



