593. PARDALIPARUS ALBESCENS McGregor.
WHITE-BACKED TITMOUSE.

Masbate (McGregor); Ticao (McGregor).

Specific characters.—Similar to P. elegans Lesson, but with little or no olive-green on upper parts, and the white on scapulars and back much more extensive, to a large extent replacing the black. Male (type), wing, 63; tail, 38; culmen from base, 11; bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 17.

594. PARDALIPARUS EDITHÆ McGregor.
EDITH’S TITMOUSE.

Calayan (McGregor); Camiguin N. (McGregor).

Male.—Top of head, sides of neck and mantle glossy blue-black; an irregular white patch in center of nape; a number of large white spots on mantle; back and rump gray, washed with olivaceous; upper tail-coverts glossy black; chin, throat, and fore breast dead black, forming a large triangular patch, bounded above by a broad band of white, slightly washed with yellow, which extends under eye across ear-coverts onto side of neck; rest of lower parts pale lemon-yellow, washed with olivaceous on sides of neck and abdomen and on flanks; wings glossy black; primaries narrowly edged with gray on their outer webs and with white on the inner; greater and median coverts with white spots at tips (much smaller than in P. elegans and not forming bands as in that species); secondaries tipped with white; tail black with white markings as in P. elegans, but the white tips much smaller and white on outer webs of two outer pairs of rectrices. Bill black except basal third which is horn-blue; legs dull blue; nails horn-brown. Length, 122; wing, 67; tail, 43; culmen from base, 12; bill from nostril, 10; tarsus, 18; middle toe with claw, 17.