28 rARiDJc. 



Hub. All over Europe. 



a, b. Ad. St. Scotland. J. Wolley, Esq. [P.]. 



c Ad. sk. Scotland. F. D. Godiuan and O. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Europe. Gould Collection. 



e. Ad. sk. Europe. Purchased. 



/. S ad. sk. Weriuland, Sweden, Jan. W. Meves, Esq. [0.]. 



1873. 



</. $ ad sk. Wermlaud, Sweden, Dec. W. Meves, Esq. [C.]. 



•20, 1872. 



/*, i. d 2 ad. sk. Gibraltar. Colonel Irby [P.j. 



k. Ad. sk. Berlin. F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



/. Ad. in spirits. Mark Brandenburg. Dr. FI. Gadow [P.]. 



m. Skeleton. Purchased. 



21. Parus melanolophus. 



Parus melanolophus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 22 ; Gould, Cent. Himal. 



B. pi. 30. tig. 2 ; Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 8 ; Gray, Cat. 



Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodi/s. p. 73 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 192 ; 



Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 104 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 228 ; Horsf. 8f 



Moore, Cat. B. 31. E.I. Co. i. p. 372 ; Gould, B. Asia, pt. xi. 



(1859) ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 72. 

 Parus melaloplius, Hodgs. in Grays Zool. 3Iisc. p. 83 ( 1844) . 

 IMaclilolophus melanolophus. Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 91 (1850). 

 Lophophanes melanolophos, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 273 (1863) ; Brooks, 



Str. F. 1875, p. 253 ; IVardlatv Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 61. 



Adult nude. Mantle, back, upper tail-coverts, and lesser wing- 

 coverts bluish or iron-grey ; quills and tail ashy grey, externally 

 edged or washed with the bluish-grey colour of the back, secondaries 

 with narrow white tips ; greater and median wing-coverts like 

 the quills, but with round whitish or pale buff-coloured terminal 

 spots ; crown of head and hind neck glossy blue-black, the former 

 with a long and somewhat recuiTed crest of the same colour ; lores, 

 region below the eyes, ear-coverts, cheeks and part of the sides of 

 the neck, and a large patch on the nape pure white : chin, entire 

 throat, and upper part of breast deep black ; rest of breast, ab- 

 domen, and flanks iron-grey ; sides of breast, axillaries, under wing- 

 and under tail-coverts rufous ; inner web of quiUs edged with 

 whitish ; bill blackish ; feet plumbeous. Total length about 4-5 

 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-3-2-5, tail 1-75, tarsus 0-68. 



Immature birds have the general colour above dull ashy grey ; 

 crown of head black, with a short crest, and the white patch on the 

 nape little developed ; cheeks and ear-coverts dingy white ; under 

 surface of body dull ashy with a slight wash of fulvous, which 

 becomes more distinct on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; 

 Hanks with a tuft of fawn-colour. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas, ranging into Eastern Afghanistan. 



f,. Ad. sk. Cabul ( Griffith). India Museum. 



h. Ad. sk. Gilgit, 10,500 ft., Major J. Biddulph [P.]. 



June 3. 



