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Parus m. major.—A series of eight I cannot separate 
from the typical form. 
Parus ceruleus harterti Tratz, Orn. Monatsb. 1914, p. 49.— 
A series of nine from Algeciras and two from North 
Portugal are alike and belong to this form, which was 
described from Portugal. They are most like P. c. ogliastre, 
but of a darker more bluish shade of green on the mantle 
and with very bright blue wings, and thus somewhat inclined 
towards P. ¢. ultramarinus. 
Parus cristatus weigoldi Tratz, Orn. Monatsh. 1914, p. 50.— 
A series of twelve from Algeciras are very near P. c. scoticus, 
but not quite so dark on the mantle and with rather purer 
white and wider edgings and tips to the feathers of the 
crown and crest. They are unlike P. c. mitratus, which is 
the form found in the Pyrenees, and also, judging by one 
specimen from Arosa Bay, in North-west Spain. P. ce. 
weigoldi was described from Portugal, and I have not yet 
seen specimens from that country, but from the description 
it is evidently the same. 
Sylvia undata toni.—A series of nine from Algeciras are 
certainly of the North African form. 
Cisticola cisticola cisticola.—It is surprising to find that 
Fantail-Warblers from South Spain, Murcia, Valencia, 
Balearic Islands, and probably also those from Portugal are 
like the North African birds, which have been separated in 
ignorance of this fact under the name C. c. arquata (see 
Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, vol. i. p. 611). To add to the 
confusion Tratz has described the Portuguese bird as 
Cisticola ¢. jordansi—an absolute synonym, since Temminck 
gives Portugal and Algeciras as typical localities for his 
Silvia cisticola. Fantail-Warblers from the rest of South 
Europe, Asia Minor, and Egypt differ distinctly from the 
true C. c. cisticola from Spain and North-west Africa in 
having more buff and less grey edgings to the feathers of the 
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