FAM. PARID# 43 
Geographical Distribution. Tropical Africa. Seven forms. 
Habits and Nidification unknown. We have only a note by Heuelin, that, in its habits, 
P. plumbeum reminds one rather of the Flycatchers. 
Observations. The systematic position of this genus is still far from being satisfactorily 
established, and it may yet turn out to belong to the MWvscicapidae. 
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— Upper parts paler, more ashy grey . . SUBC-ERULEUM CINERASCENS. 
4 Upper parts dull brownish grey; lower throat and foreneck conspi- 
cuously streaked with dusky : sone 4. P. LAYARDI. 
— Upper parts pure grey; throat and foreneck uniform whitish, not 
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5. Rectrices brownish black, the oyter ones very slightly tipped with light 
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6. Upper parts darker grey; outermost vectrix with outer web and apical 
third of inner web white, penultimate rvectrix black with a small 
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— Upper parts lighter grey; outermost rectvix, with the exception of the 
basal third of winer web, entirely white, penultimate vectrix with 
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whsle outer web and long tip to inner web white . . PLUMBEUM PLUMBEUM. 
1. Parisoma subceruleum subczeruleum (Vieillot). 
Sylvia subcaerulea Vieillot, Nouv. Dict., Hist. Nat. Vol. 11, p. 188 (1817) (based on « Le Grignet », Levaillant, Ois. 
d’ Afr. Vol. 3, pl. 126, f. 1: « sur les bords de la riviére Gaus, Goud (d'Or) ou Gaurits ; je l'ai trouvée répandue 
depuis la jusqu’au Brake-Rivier »). f 
Parisoma rufiventer Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. 2, p. 247 (1837) (based on Levaillant, Ois. d’Afr. Vol. 3, pl. 126). 
Sylvia erythropygos Lichtenstein, Verz. Samml. Kaffernland, p. 14 (1842) (Caffraria). 
Fig. Levaillant, Ois. d Afr. Vol. 3, pl. 126, f. 1. 
Hab. South Africa (Cape Colony) and South-eastern Africa (Natal, Oranje Colony, Transvaal, Mata- 
beleland). 
2. Parisoma subczruleum cinerascens Reichenow. 
Parisoma subcaeruleum cinevascens Reichenow, Ornith. Monatsber. Vol. 10, p. 77 (1902) (Damaraland). 
Hab. S. W. Africa : Benguella and Damaraland. 
3. Parisoma bohmi Reichenow. 
Parisoma béhmi Reichenow, Journ. f. Ornith. Vol. 39, p. 209, pl. 2, f. 2 (1882) (Seke in Ugogo). 
Fig. Journ. f. Ornith. Vol. 3o, pl. 2, f. 2. 
Hab, Eastern Africa : from Somaliland southward to central German East Africa (Ugogo). 
4. Parisoma layardi Hartlaub. 
Parisoma layardi Hartlaub, The Ibis, Vol. 4, p. 147 (1862) (Cape Colony). 
