1 10 JOURNAL, BO UBA Y NA TURA L HIS TORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX. 



•» (3G6) tEgithaliscus -i amfdrn=?i?!, Rippon.— (The Yumianese 

 K3d headed Tit.) 



Bull, B. O. C, Vol, XIV, p. 18. 



Karhin nim". — Shiraw Sik. 



(I'riHi) " Similar to -'^I. maid/mre7is/s and A. concfnna (the Chinese bird). 

 Top of the head pale rufous, but the band across the chest narrow, and the 

 sides of the l.ody very deep chestnut. Length 4-5 ; cuimcn 'lib; wing 2-1; 

 tail •2-\ ; tarsus -65." 



My specimens from Sinlum seem to be slightly smaller than Col. Kippon's 

 birds in Nat. Hist. Museum. 



N<Hltn;f.~Cu the -JSlh April I was at last fortunate in finding the nest of 

 this little Tit afu r l.aAing watched and hunted in vain smce the 20th, when I 

 had seen a bird with a feather in its beak. The nest was placed between the 

 stems of a bramble about two feet from the ground, and reminded one of a small 

 English Long-tailsd Tit's nest. Oa the outside it was composed entirely of moss 

 (not coveved wilh lichen), the entrance hole being near the top , and was lined 

 firstly with vegetalle down end then profusely with gaudy feathers of the 

 Pheasant, Hill Partridge, Barbets and Minivets, and contained three highly 

 incubated, but blowable eggs, 1 also found another nest building which seems 

 to be a very lengthy operation, as I watched it for over a fortnight while the 

 birds thought of completing it. At last, when I had hopes of obtaining a nice 

 clutch of eggs, I found something had been before me and had pulled it to 

 pieces, as well ai a Sfcachyrhidopsis'd nest close by, which should also have 

 contained eggs. 



I got a fully fledged young 1 ird of this species at Sinlum ; it has the black 

 throat of the adult bird altogether wanting, its whole throat and upper breast 

 being entirely white, with the exception of a thin black gorget which is never 

 found in the old bird. In the Nat. Hist. Museum there is a young bird of A. 

 coHciuna showing markings very similar to my specimen. 



Engn. — Very like those of yi/'. f=r?/« A oc^///(w/ms, but much smaller, having a 

 white ground colour wilh a zone of minute reddish purple spots round the 

 larger <ind. 



Mea^urtiij. — Average of three eggs •55x*14 ; largest •57x*44 ; smallest 



•52X-44. 



*(4i) Machlolopus spilonotus, (Blyth.) — (The Black-spotted 



Yellow Tit.) 

 Kitchiii jmme. — Bainum numkha (same as P. commixltts,') 

 Fairly common in the Hills, 



All the females collected by me want the conspicuous black band down the 

 breant, and were easily distinguishable from the males. I failed to find a 

 nest, but had two eggs and the nest brought me by a Kachiu, 



Egfj'i. — White, profusely spo .ted wi h rusty red, and measure •74x'58. 



PARADOXORNITHI.v^, 

 * (5"2) Par'DOXOENis guttaticoi l.s, David. — (Austen's Crow-Tit.) 

 Kachiu name. — Re- h ng-nu-gop. 

 Saw this bird on Si-veral occasions frequenting patches of mountain-bambao 



