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Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but differs in the 
absence of the vinous tinge on the head, hind-neck, and 
mantle, and in having the vinous on the fore-neck and breast 
duller. Wing 97 mm. 
Hab. Bolivia and South-east Peru. 
Dr. E. Harrert described a new subspecies of the 
Yellow-breasted Azure Titmouse, and made the following 
remarks :— 
Parus jlavipectus, which, in 1904, I only knew from 
Ferghana, is wider spread eastwards, for it is found, and 
not only in the winter, but also during the breeding-season, 
throughout the Alexander Mountains, and at “ Kapak, 
Tian-shan,” where P. cyanus tianschanicus should also breed. 
It is, therefore, perhaps safer to treat flavipectus and cyanus 
as two species, not as subspecies, as I have done in my book 
Vog. d. pal. Fauna, p. 354. On the other hand, there are in 
the British Museum two specimens of flavipectus with only 
a faint tinge of yellow on the breast—evidently aberrant 
specimens. What is even more interesting is, that Mr. D. 
Carruthers collected at Samarkand five beautiful specimens 
which belong to another subspecies, easily distinguishable, 
though very closely allied to Parus flavipectus flavipectus. 
This form I propose to call 
Parus flavipectus carruthersi, subsp. nov. 
It differs from P. f. flavipectus as follows: The crown and 
sides of the head and the throat are darker bluish grey, the 
white on the lateral rectrices is less extended, and the fourth 
pair from outside has, except in one.specimen, no white, 
while there is always a large white patch on this rectrix in 
true flavipectus. The wings of two males measure 93 and 
96, of an unsexed specimen 94, of two females 92 mm. 
Hab, Samarkand.—Mr. Carruthers (Ibis, 1910, p. 454) 
says this bird is resident at Samarkand, and this statement 
is probably correct, Samarkand being separated from 
Ferghana by high mountain-ranges, but how the collector 
