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41. Sitta neumayer zarudnyi Buturlin. 
Sitta zavudnyi Buturlin, Mitteil. Kaukas. Mus. Tiflis, Vol. 3, p. 70 (1907} (« Asia Minor : from Aidin to Taurus 
inclusive »). 
Hab. Asia Minor |Smyrna, Aidin, Ephesos etc., east to the Taurus Mountains 1), Cilicia). 
. Sitta neumayer syriaca lemminck. 
=f 
nN 
Sitta syviaca (Ehrenberg MS.) Temminck, Man. d’Oraith. (ed. 2) Vol. 3, p. 286 (1835) (« Syrie »). 
Hab. Syria (Tannurin, Libanon, Antilibanon, Banias in the Jordan valley). 
43. Sitta neumayer rupicola Blanford. 
Sitta rupicola, Blanford, The Ibis (3), Vol. 3, p. 87 (1873) (« in montibus Persicis presertim in Elburz »; type ex 
Elburz Mts.) 2). 
Sitta syriaca parva Buturlin, The [bis (8), Vol. 6, p. 417 (1906) (Akhalzikh, Transcaucasia). 
Fig. Blanford, Eastern Persia, Vol. 2, pl. 15, f. 2 (specimen in Tring Mus.). 
Hab. North Persia : Elburz Mountains, south of the Caspian Sea; Transcaucasia, west to Adijaman 3) 
(Kurdistan, Armenia). (Doubtfully separable from the preceding form.) 
44. Sitta neumayer tephronota Sharpe. 
Sitta tephronota Sharpe, Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), Vol. 10, p. 450 (1872) (type from Kokand, in Ferghana, 
Turkestan). 
Sitta syriaca obscura Sarudny & Loudon4), Ornith. Monatsber. Vol. 13, p. 76 (1905) (« bewohnt das Gebirge 
zwischen dem persischen Meerbusen und dem Hochlande von Iruru, da sie sich nérdlich kaum weiter als bis 
zum Breitengrade von Kaschan ausbreitet »). 
Hab. Greater part of Persia (except south-western provinces and Elburz Range), from southern Azer- 
bejan, Baluchistan, Afghanistan (Candahar) and Turkestan (as far east as Tian-shan Mountains). 
45. Sitta neumayer dresseri Sarudny & Buturlin. 
Sitta dressevi Sarudny & Buturlin, Ornith.Monatsber. Vol. 14, p. 132 (1906) (nolocality ! but « Mountains of South- 
western Persia between highlands of Iran and lowlands of Mesopotamia » are to be regarded as terra typica; 
cfr. Buturlin, Mitteil. Kauk. Mus. Vol. 3, p. 66). 
Hab. Mountains of South-western Persia (Luristan, Arabistan, Farsistan, Laristan). 
46. Sitta tschitscherini Sarudny. 
Sttta tschitscherini Sarudny, Ornith. Jahrb. Vol. 15, p. 218 (1904) (Ispahan, South Persia). 
Hab. Mountains of South-western Persia, north to Ispahan and southern parts of Zagrosh-Range. 
2. GENUS CALLISITTA BONAPARTE 
Dendrophila (nec Hodgson, April 1837, Phasianide) Swainson, Classif. of Birds, Vol. 2, p. 318 
(July 1837) (Species : D. flavipes Swainson and D. frontalis Swainson). 
Callisitta Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Avium, Vol. 1, p. 226 (1850) (Sp. typ. : S-tta formosa Blyth). 
Characters. 

Bill slender, decidedly shorter than head or tarsus, slightly compressed 
in terminal portion, its depth at base equal to width; culmen less rounded than in Sitfa, with 
1) Specimens obtained by Danford in Tring Museum, examined by me. 
2) Buturlin considers Blanford’s name untenable, but this view is erroneous. Even if Blanford’s description of S. rupr- 
cola were a mixtum compositum his name would, by elimination, become available for the Rock-Nuthatch of the Elburz- 
range. However, Blanford primarily based rupicola on the four specimens from the latter locality, and the others from 
Kohrud and Shiraz were only incidentally mentioned. Moreover, one of the Lura valley examples, now in the Tring 
Museum, bears, on the label, a note from Dr. Blanford’s own hand «type, Ibis 1873 p. 87, specimen figured Zoology of 
Persia ». Parva Buturlin thus becomes a synonym of yvupicola, Transcaucasian skins being practically identical with Blan- 
ford’s type. The specimen from Shiraz, also in Tring Museum, is referable to S. . dvesseri, while that from Kohrud, which 
I have not seen, may belong to S. tschitscherini. 
3) Specimen in Liverpool Museum (ex coll. Tristram) examined. 
4) After examining more than fifty specimens from Persia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan and Turkestan, I am unable to 
separate S.s. obscura from S.n, tephyonata, for the alleged colour-differences are not connected with distinct geographical areas. 
