Parus elegans

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Howard and Moore, 3rd Edition

Similar Species

Members of the genus Parus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 116 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

P. afer (Southern Grey Tit) · P. afer afer (Southern Grey Tit) · P. albiventris (White-Breasted Tit) · (Palawan Tit) · P. ater (Coal Tit) · P. ater ater (Coal Tit) · P. atricapillus (Black-Capped Chickadee) · P. atricapillus atricapillus (Black-Capped Chickadee) · P. atricapillus bartletti (Black-Capped Chickadee) · P. atricapillus fortuitus (Black-Capped Chickadee) · P. atricapillus garrinus (Black-Capped Chickadee) · P. atricapillus nevadensis (Black-Capped Chickadee) · P. atricapillus occidentalis (Black-Capped Chickadee) · P. atricapillus practicus (Black-Capped Chickadee) · P. atricapillus septentrionalis (Black-Capped Chickadee) · P. atricapillus turneri (Black-Capped Chickadee) · P. atricristatus (Black-Crested Titmouse) · P. bicolor (Black-Crested Titmouse) · P. bicolor bicolor (Black-Crested Titmouse) · P. bokharensis (Turkestan Tit) · P. bokharensis bokharensis (Turkestan Tit) · P. caeruleus (Fuerteventura Blue Tit) · P. carolinensis (North Carolina Chickadee) · P. carolinensis agilis (Carolina Chickadee) · P. carolinensis atricapilloides (Carolina Chickadee) · P. carolinensis carolinensis (Carolina Chickadee) · P. carolinensis extimus (Carolina Chickadee) · P. carolinensis impiger (Carolina Chickadee) · P. carpi (Carp's Black Tit) · P. cinctus (Gray-Headed Chickadee) · P. cinctus cinctus (Siberian Tit) · P. cinctus lathami (Siberian Tit) · P. cinerascens (Acacia Grey Tit) · P. cristatus (Crested Tit) · P. cristatus cristatus (Crested Tit) · P. cyanus (Azure Tit) · P. davidi (Rusty-Breasted Tit) · P. dichrous (Gray-Crested Black-Tit) · P. elegans (Elegant Tit) · P. elegans elegans (Elegant Tit) · P. fasciiventer (Stripe-Breasted Tit) · P. fasciiventer fasciiventer (Stripe-Breasted Tit) · P. flavipectus (Yellow-Breasted Tit) · P. fringillinus (Red-Throated Tit) · P. funereus (Dusky Tit) · P. funereus funereus (Dusky Tit) · P. gambeli (Mrs. Bailey's Chickadee) · P. gambeli abbreviatus (Mountain Chickadee) · P. gambeli atratus (Mountain Chickadee) · P. gambeli baileyae (Mountain Chickadee) · P. gambeli gambeli (Mountain Chickadee) · P. gambeli grinnelli (Mountain Chickadee) · P. gambeli inyoensis (Mountain Chickadee) · P. griseiventris (Northern Grey Tit) · P. guineensis (White-Shouldered Black Tit) · (Formosan Yellow Tit) · P. hudsonicus (Cascade Brown-Headed Chickadee) · P. hudsonicus cascadensis (Boreal Chickadee) · P. hudsonicus columbianus (Boreal Chickadee) · P. hudsonicus hudsonicus (Boreal Chickadee) · P. hudsonicus littoralis (Boreal Chickadee) · P. hudsonicus rabbittsi (Boreal Chickadee) · P. hypermelaenus (Black-Bibbed Tit) · P. inornatus (Warren Valley Titmouse) · P. inornatus affabilis (Plain Titmouse) · P. inornatus cineraceus (Plain Titmouse) · P. inornatus inornatus (Plain Titmouse) · P. inornatus kernensis (Plain Titmouse) · P. inornatus mohavensis (Plain Titmouse) · P. inornatus plumbescens (Plain Titmouse) · P. inornatus ridgwayi (Plain Titmouse) · P. inornatus sequestratus (Plain Titmouse) · P. inornatus transpositus (Plain Titmouse) · P. inornatus zaleptus (Plain Titmouse) · P. leucomelas (White-Winged Black Tit) · P. leuconotus (White-Backed Black Tit) · P. lugubris (Sombre Tit) · P. lugubris lugubris (Sombre Tit) · P. major (Great Tit) · P. major major (Great Tit) · P. major newtoni (Great Tit) · P. melanolophus (Vigors' Crested Tit) · P. montanus (Willow Tit) · P. montanus montanus (Willow Tit) · P. monticolus (Green-Backed Tit) · P. monticolus monticolus (Green-Backed Tit) · P. niger (Southern Black Tit) · P. niger niger (Southern Black Tit) · P. nuchalis (White-Winged Black Tit) · P. pallidiventris (Cinnamon-Breasted Tit) · P. palustris (Marsh Tit) · P. palustris palustris (Marsh Tit) · P. rubidiventris (Rufous-Bellied Tit) · P. rufescens (Chestnut-Backed Chickadee) · P. rufescens barlowi (Chestnut-Backed Chickadee) · P. rufescens neglectus (Chestnut-Backed Chickadee) · P. rufescens rufescens (Chestnut-Backed Chickadee) · P. rufiventris (Rufous-Bellied Tit) · P. rufiventris rufiventris (Rufous-Bellied Tit) · P. rufonuchalis (Black-Breasted Tit)

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Further Reading

• A manual of Philippine birds / by Richard C. McGregor. Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1909. url p. 605, p. 605, p. 606, p. 606.
• A manual of Philippine birds, by Richard C. McGregor. .. Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1909. url p. 605, p. 606.
• Birds of Asia / by John Gould. II 1850-83 London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1850-1883. url p. .
• Birds of the Philippine Islands: Siquijor, Mount Malindang, Bohol, and Samar / Austin L. Rand and Dioscoro S. Rabor. 35 1958 Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1960. url p. 308, p. 372.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1958 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url , p. 13.
• Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. London: The Club, 1893- url p. 124, p. 132.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 86 1939 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 105, p. 350.
• Bulletin of the Philippine Museum. Manila, Bureau of Public Printing. url p. 11, p. 7.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 22.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 71, p. 94, p. 95.
• Check-list of the species of fishes known from the Philippine Archipelago, Manila, Bureau of printing, 1910. url p. 340, p. 605, p. 606.
• Genera avium / Brussels: V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, 1905-1914. url p. 32.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 109, p. 201, p. 224, p. 239, p. 252, p. 254, p. 34, p. 408, p. 467, p. 511, p. 52, p. 549.
• Preliminary notes on the birds and mammals collected by the Menage Scientific Expedition to the Philippine Islands. Minneapolis, The Academy, 1894. url .
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 100, p. 104, p. 105, p. 106, p. 203, p. 204, p. 206, p. 208, p. 210, p. 211, p. 218, p. 219, p. 292, p. 61, p. 95, p. 96, p. 98, p. 99.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 59, p. 673, p. 704.
• The Philippine journal of science. Manila: Bureau of Science url p. 293, p. 340.
• The avifauna of Mt. Kitanglad, Bukidnon Province, Mindanao, Philippines / A. Townsend Peterson, . .. [et al]. 2008 Chicago, Ill: Field Museum of Natural History, June 14, 2008. url table 4 , p. 20, p. 27, p. 28.
• The birds of Mt. Isarog National Park, Southern Luzon, Philippines, with particular reference to altitudinal distribution / Steven M. Goodman, Pedro C. Gonzales. 60 1990 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, [1990] url fig. 6 , p. 18, p. 34.
• The conservation status of biological resources in the Philippines WCMC url p. 56.
• The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea: with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago / by F. H. H. Guillemard. London: J. Murray, 1886. url p. 361.
• The ornithological works of Arthur, ninth Marquis of Tweeddale / edited and revised by Robert G. Wardlaw Ramsay; together with a biographical sketch of the author by William Howard Russell. London: Taylor and Francis, 1881. url p. 363, p. 513, p. 530, p. 535, p. 592, p. 658.
• Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. London: [The Society], 1879- url p. 352.
• Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. [London]: Published for the Zoological Society of London by Academic Press url p. 685.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2009. Parus elegans. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 03February2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 30, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 24, 2007:

• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 12616
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14837488
• IUCN ID: 230636
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 632496

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