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(3) Sitta neumayer dresseri Zar. & But. 
Sitta neumayert syriaca Witherby, Ibis, 1903, p. 532. 
Sitta dresseri Zarudny & Buturlin, Orn. Monats. 1906, 
p- 132 (no terra typica). 
Sitta neumayer tschitscherint Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, 
p- 339. 
Sitta neumayeri tschitscherini Witherby, Ibis, 1907, p. 91. 
Rupisitta dresseri Buturlin, Trav. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes 
de Petrograd, xliv. (1916). 
This is the largest and palest of all the Rock Nuthatches ; 
the eye-stripe is long and very broad, and the bill very 
powerful. Wing 87-94, bill 22-23 mm. It inhabits the 
same area as S. 7. tschitscherini, though the two species are 
not found together in all parts of their range. That of this 
species is the province of Fars, 8.W. Persia, extending 
north as far as Pa-i-Taq in the province of Kermanshah, 
close to the Mesopotamian border. 
(4) Sttta neumayer obscura Zar. & Loud. 
Sitta syriaca obscura Zarudny & Loudon, Orn. Monatsber. 
1905, p. 76, and Zarudny, Journ. f. Orn. 1911, p. 219. 
Sitta neumayeri neumayert Witherby, Ibis, 1910, p. 505. 
Sitta neumayer tephronota (partim) Hartert, Vog. ae 
Fauna, p. 339. 
Buturlin’s description is :—‘‘ Upper parts as dark as in 
European birds though a trifle less bluish, more leaden grey, 
eye-stripe strongly developed, very long, and nearly twice as 
wide as in average European S. neumayer, or Asia Minor 
S. zarudnyi.....” The original description is useless. 
Wing 82-91, bill 18-23 mm. This is the race found in the 
mountain ranges of all Persia, except the N.H., from which 
S. n. iranica But. has been described, and the 8.W. where it 
is replaced by S. n. dressert. 
(5) Sitta neumayer iranica But. 
Rupisitta tephronota .iranica Buturlin, Tray. Soc. BS 
Naturalistes de Petrogad, xliv. p. 173 (1916). 
I have seen no Rock Nuthatches from the area inhabited 
