PARUS TENERIFFA 
(ULTRAMARINE TITMOUSE.) 
Parus teneriffe, Less. Traité d’Orn. i. p. 456 (1831). 
Parus ultramarinus, Bonap. Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 146. 
Parus ceruleanus, Malh. Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 46. 
Cyanistes ultramarinus, Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 229 (1850). 
Parus violaceus, Bolle, J. f. O. 1854, p. 455. 
Bou reziza of the Arabs (Loche). 
Figure notabiles. 
Gray and Mitch. Gen. of B. pl. 52; Loche, Expl. Scient. de l’Algérie, Ois. pl. 7. fig. 1. 
3 ad. pileo nigro, cyaneo nitente: collo postico et laterali, fasciA oculum pereunte, et gula tota ad collum pos- 
ticum conjunctaé indigotico-nigris: fronte et lined superciliari pileum circumeunte, cum genis, albis: 
y fo) fo) ] to} b) 
dorso claré schistaceo, uropygio vix viridescente: tectricibus alarum ceruleis, majoribus angusté albo 
terminatis: remigibus nigris externé ceruleo lavatis, primariis albo marginatis, et secundariis albo 
fo} 5) bes) S) 
angusté terminatis: rectricibus ceruleis, scapis nigris: subtus citrinus, hypochondriis paullo virides- 
centibus, pectore medio indigotico-nigro: rostro nigro: pedibus plumbescenti-cinereis. 
2 haud a mari distinguenda. 
Adult Male. Above clear slaty blue; crown of the head deep blue-black, the fore part much brighter blue ; 
forehead, a line over the eye encircling the head, cheeks, and ear-coverts white; throat deep blue-black, 
running below the cheeks on each side and joining a collar which goes round the neck, and a narrow 
line drawn through the eye to this collar, of the same colour; wing-coverts blue, the greater ones with 
scarcely perceptible white tips ; quills brownish black, exteriorly washed with blue like the back, the 
secondaries especially being almost entirely of this colour, and also tipped conspicuously with white ; tail 
blue, a little brighter on the upper surface, the shafts black above, yellowish beneath ; under surface of the 
body lemon-yellow, a narrow bluish-black line extending down the centre of the breast, the flanks rather 
more greenish ; bill black ; feet leaden blue. Total length 4 inches, wing 2°4, tail 1:8, tarsus 0°6. 
Adult Female. Similar to the male, the black of the throat in one example before us being less deep. 
Obs. The above descriptions are taken from a male example procured in Teneriffe by Mr. F. Du Cane 
Godman, on the 9th of April 1871. Dr. Bolle has named the birds from the Canaries P. violaceus, 
having reason to believe that it was not the same as P. ultramarinus of Algeria, with which, however, 
he allows P. teneriffe of Lesson to be synonymous. We do not quite see any valid reason for the 
proposal of this name, because if a species allied to P. ultramarinus occurred im the Canaries, P. teneriffe 
would undoubtedly be the bird, and by proposing a new name for his Titmouse, Dr. Bolle hints at the 
possibility of two species occurring in the Canaries, a very improbable coincidence. More recently, 
however, Mr. Godman has brought back three specimens of the Ultramarime Titmouse from this 
locality, which agree well with Lesson’s description of P. teneriff@ and also clearly demonstrate that 
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