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11. — What is yonr Corvvs Laivrencei? Not described by you 

 in Lahore to Yarkand. I suspect it to be my C. subcorau,-, 

 found by me already in 1857, on the Syr-Darya, published 

 December 1872. Of this I have no diagnosis at hand, but 

 some lately collected specimens, and pray you for the descrip- 

 tion and figure of yours. 



12. — The Turkestan Corvus corone appears to me to be C. inter- 

 medins, Adams [culminatus (?) Sykes) ; it is C. orientalis, 

 Eversm., and may differ from the European, with which, however, 

 specimens of the Oxus may be identical. I must yet compare 

 them. 



13. — Our Russian and Turkestan Jack-daw is Colmis collaris 

 Drumm, so I judge from its marked white collar. 



14. — Cleptesbactriana differs from the common Russian Magpie 

 only by its blue (instead of yellow) naked spots on the cheeks ; 

 but the Russian Magpie is Cleptes leuconota, Brm., not quite 

 like the English. The differences of these local forms of Magpies 

 appear to me somewhat slight, except perhaps P. mauritanica. 



15. — Of Poduces I have only P. Panderi, and am very curious 

 to see your Podoces Biddulphi. 



16. — Parus flavipectus : like cyaneus, but with yellow breast 

 and much smaller white markings on the wings and tail. 

 Young above greenish grey and more resembling to caruleus, 

 but with a light grey head. Intermediate between caruleus 

 and cyaneus ; is found in mountain deciduous forests not in 

 the pines, Tianshan ; figured. 



17. — Poecile songara, Sev., allied to P. higubris, Natt; but 

 the black of the nape and occiput covers also the ivhole hind parts 

 of the neck and descends hi a narrow black point on the back, 

 ichose middle feathers are largely striped with black along the 

 shafts ; the whole body dirty yelloicish brown, darker on the 

 back, lighter on the belly, and lightest near the black on 

 the back and throat; whitish cheeks, dark greyish brown wings 

 and tail, with lighter edges — as in the other species of Poecile. 

 Quills : 1st abortive, yet double length of its coverts ; 

 4 = 5 = 67773787972710. 



18. — Parus picecti, Sev., {rufipectus, Sev.,) like P. ater, but 

 with a rufous band across the back, and light rufous underparts, 

 coloured more like P. rufonuchalis yet without any trace of 

 a crest and intermediate between ater and rufonuc/ialis. 



19,20,21. — My new jEgithali, A . atricapillus; A. coronatus, 

 A. macronyx, may be readily distinguished by the figures. 

 I can only remark, that A. coronatus is possibly a variety of 

 atricapillus — } r et having obtained no transitional forms I prefer 

 for the present to retain them as distinct. As for A. macronyx and 

 rutilans, the former is the younger in second plumage; this I 

 have now ascertained by collecting them in moult on the Oxus. 



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