NOVITATBS ZOOLOOICAE XXVIl. 1&20. 443 



456. Paras major tibetanus Hart. = Parus major tibetanus. 



Pants major tibetanus Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 346 (1905 — Tsongpo Valley, in eastern Tibet). 



Type : c? ad., Chaksam, Tsongpp Valley, 25. ix. 1904. Colonel WaddeU leg. 

 (Received from H. E. Dresser.) 



457. Paras major caschmirensis Hart. = Parus major caschmirensis. 



Parus major caschmirensis Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 345 (1905 — ^Mts. of Kashmir). 

 Type: ad., Gilgit, 26.xi.1878. J. Scully leg. No 2,618. 



458. Paras major planoram Hart. = Parus major planorum. 

 Parus major planorum Hartert, Nov. Zool. xii. p. 499 (1905 — Southern Punjab). 

 Type : ad., South Punjab, Lieutenant Cleveland leg. 



459. Paras major mahrattaram Hart. = Parus major mahrattarum. 

 Parus major mahrattarum Hartert, Nov. Zool. xii. p. 499 (1905 — South India and Ceylon). 



Type : <J ad., Ceylon, 1.x. 1868. E. Holdsworth leg. No. 182. 



460. Paras major hainanus Hart. = Parus major hainanus. 

 Parus major hainanus Hartert, Nov. Zool. xii. p. 499 (1905 — ^Hainan). 



Type : (J ad., Lei Mui Mon, Hainan, 18. xii. 1902. Katsumata leg. 



461. Paras major oMnawae Hart. = Parus major okinawae. 



Parus major okinawae Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 346 (1905 — Island of Okinawa, Riu Kiu group). 



Type: (J ad., Okinawa, 14.iii.l902. N. C. Rothschild, F. Gayner and 

 A. W. Waters leg. No. 61. 



462. Paras major terraesanctae Hart. = Parus major terraesanctae. 

 Parus major terraesanctae Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, i. p. xxxii. (1910 — ^Palestine). 



Type : <? ad., Jerusalem, 2.ii.l899. ? Bacher leg. No. 179 (not 177). 



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 463. Paras montanus kleinschmidti Hellm. = Parus atricapillus kleinschmidti. 

 Parus montanus kleinschmidti Hellmayr, Orn. Jahrb. 1900. p. 212 (England). 



Type: $ ad., Coalfall Wood, Finchley, near London, N., 22. ix. 1897. 

 W. Burton leg. 



464. Paras palustris hellmayri Bianchi — Parus palustris hellmayri. 



Parus palustris hellmayri Bianchi, Annuaire Mus. Zool. St. Pitersbourg, vii. p. 236 (1902 — Based on 

 " Parus sp. nov." Kleinschmidt, Orn. Jahrb. viii. p. 77, 1897, Peking). 



Type : <? juv., Peking, v. 1885. 



Kleinschmidt and I wisely hesitated to name this form from the material 

 available, though it appears to be quite distinct. (Cf. also Hartert, Vog. pal. 

 Fauna, p. 375 ; Hellmayr, Genera Avium, part 18, pp. 12, 34.) 



