ANTHOS COP US.
Bill pointed and thin; plumage more compact than in "Parus" and "Aegithalus"; frequent damp localities; nest globular or purse-shaped, built on outer twigs of trees; eggs pure white.
Anthoscopus pendulinus pendulinus (L.). PEND ULINE TIT. Fr. Mtsange remiz ; Ger. Bcutelmeise ; Ital. Pendol ino.
8 9 adult. Crown and hind neck dull white ; frontal band, face, and car coverts black ; forecrown behind frontal band and upper back chestnut, rest of upper parts more ochreous ; quills with creamy white margins ; beneath buff, throat while, breast chestnut with buff tips. Bill horn black, pale on cutting edges.
Legs and feet dark bluish black. \Ving 55-59. Tarsus 15.5-16-5.
Tail 48-52. Bill 7-8. Young : brown (lacking chestnut and black), more cinnamon on back and wing coverts.
Resident. —Spain (S. and E.), Pyrenees, Rhone Valley, Provence, Italy, Sicily, Lower Austria, Hungary, Silesia (occasional), Poland, Balkan Peninsula to S. Russia and Asia Minor.
A. pendulinus caspius (Poelzam). Crown and mantle chestnut, hind neck creamy, white margins of quills broader.
Resident.—Shores of Caspian Sea, deltas of Ural and Volga Rivers north to Orenburg.