OF TUB NETHERLANDS. 



203 



Paridae. 



279. Parus major L. [KOOLMEES], 

 15 specimens. 



280. Parus coeruleus L. [Pimpelmees]. 

 22 specimens. 



281. Parus ater L. [Zwarte mees]. 

 2 specimens, 



282. Parus cristatus mitratus Brehm. [Kuifmees]. 



1 specimen. We possess further only 7 specimens from 

 our country. 



283. Parus communis longirostris Kleinscbmidt. [Glans- 

 koppige zwartkopmees] . 



We received 14 specimens, adult ones, killed in the 

 months January to April and in August and October, all 

 presented by Bn. Snouckaert van Schauburg. We had only 

 one example of this form from our country, a male, shot 

 10 December 1889 at Voorschoten, Zuid-Holland. The bird, 

 that Nozeman (Nederlandsche Vogelen, I, 1770, p. 47, 

 plate, the female) and Schlegel (Vogels van Nederland, 

 1854 — 58, p. 251, pi. 129) called Parus palustris, does not 

 belong to this form, but is Parus montanus salicarius Brehm. 

 When Schlegel wrote his Vogels van Nederland" there 

 were no specimens of the present form, killed in the Ne- 

 therlands, in the collection of the Museum, only examples 

 of P. m. salicarius Brehm. After Schlegel all the marsh- 

 tits from the Netherlands were called Parus palustris. 

 Kleinscbmidt in 1897 (Ornith. Jahrb. VIII, 1897, p. 45, 

 and Journ. fur Ornith. 1897, p. 112) pointed out very 

 clearly the occurrence of two different species of these tits 

 in Germany, and Hartert in 1905 (Vög. palaarkt. Faun. 

 Heft III, 1905) could mention with certainty two different 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXX. 



