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or outeruiost, which has the greater part of liasal half of outer web 

 ■white ; underpartti, with the exception of the throat, bright sulphur- 

 yellow, no black along the centre of the breast ; flanks a little 

 greenish ; under wing- coverts and edge of wing black at base, rest 

 white with narrow yellow edgings ; " bill indigo- black ; iris blackish 

 brown ; feet and claws deep lead-colour " (Sivinhoe). Total length, 

 according to Swinhoe, about 4 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 24, tail 

 1-3, tarsus 0-64. 



IJah. Central China, mountainous districts of Szechuen, in the 

 valley of the Blue Kivcr between Kweifoo and Ichang 



Ohs. The onlv specimen I have been able to examine was collected 

 by Mr. Swinhoe near Kweifoo, May 18G9, and is now in Mr. 

 Seebohm"s possession. The bill, as Swinhoe remarks, " is typical, 

 but large and thick for so small a species."' 



IS. Par us xaiithogenys. 



Parus xaiithogenvs, T'i(/ors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 23; Guuld, Cent. Him. 



B. pi. 29. fig. 1 ; Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 92 ; Jerd. Madr. Journ. 



xi. p. 7; Hodffs. in Gray's Zool 3Iisc. p. 83; Gray, Cut. Mnmm. 



etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 72; id. Gen. B. i. p. 192; Blyth, Cat. 



B. Mm. As. Sac. p. 103 ; Bp. C. A. i. p. 228 ; Blyth in Jard. Contr. 



Orn. 1851, p. 50, pi. 1 ; Hutton, J. A. S. Beng. xvii. pt. ii. p. 960 



(1848) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Comp. p. 371 (1854) ; 



Gotdd, B. Asia, pt. ix. pi. 14. 

 Tarus giiffithii, Bliith, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 444 (1847); Hume, 



Str. F. 1878, p. 405. 

 Machlolophus xanthogenys. Cab. 3Ius. Hein. i. p. 91 (1850) ; Jerdon, 



B. Ind. ii. p. 279 ; Brooks, Ibis, 1875, p. 2.53. 



Adult. Mantle, back, and rump olive-green ; scapulars black, with 

 broad edgings of the same colour as the back ; upper tail-coverts 

 and edges of the outer web of some of the tail-feathers bluish grey ; 

 tail black with white tips, the outer pair of feathers with the whole 

 outer web white ; wing-coverts black, broadly tipped with white or 

 pale yellow ; quills black, the innermost secondaries largely tipped 

 and edged with white, rest of the secondaries with smaller tips and 

 externally edged with bluish grey ; primaries externally edged with 

 white : the basal third or quarter of both inner and outer web of 

 the primaries is pure white, producing thus a conspicuous alar band ; 

 crown of head glossy black, with a long crest of feathers ; a super- 

 ciliary stripe, the occiput, lores, cheeks, and sides of the neck and 

 breast bright yellow'; the chin, throat, and a broad irregular lino 

 down the centre of the breast, occupying the whole of the abdomen, 

 deep black ; flanks and axillaries dull greenish yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts and under tail-coverts pale yellow ; edge of wing yeUow 

 or white, and, like a spot on the under coverts, mottled with blackish ; 

 thigh-feathers whitish or yellow, blackish at base ; bill black ; feet 

 plumbeous ; iris light brown. 



There is no difl^erence between the sexes in colour. 



Immature birds have the throat dingy greyish yellow, and the 



