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c, d, e. Ad. sk. N.W.Himalayas. Oapt. Stackhouso Pimvill [P.]- 



f,g. Ad. et juv. .sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Boys [C.]. 



/'. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. India Museum. 



i. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Purchased. 



k. Ad. sk. Simla. " Eugene W. Gates, Esq. 



/. Ad. sk. Simla. Purchased. 



VI. [ijjad.sk. Murree. Colonel Way [P.]. 



n. [ J ] ad. sk. Sikkim. Purchased. 



22. Pants rufonuchalis. 

 A. Western Race (P. rufonuchalis). 



Parus rufonuchalis, BIyfh, J. A. S. Beng. xviii. p. 810 ; id. Cat. B. 



Mus. As. Soc. p. 103'; id. Jard. Cuntr. Orn. 1851, p. 50 ; Bp. C. A. 



i. p. 229 ; Gould, B. Asia, pt. xi. ; Biddidph, Ibis, 1881, p. 72 ; 



Sadhj, Ibis, 1881, p. 568. 

 Lophophanes rufonuchalis, Jerdon, B. Ind. ii. p. 273 (1863) ; Hume 



8f Ilenders. Lahore to Yarkand, p. 167 (1873) ; Brooks, Sir. F. 



1875, p. 253 ; Wardlaiv Bamsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 62. 



B. Eastern Race (Parus beavani). 



Lophophanes beavani, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 275 (1863, e.v Blyth MS. 



in Mus. As. Soc.) ; David £r Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 285 (1877). 

 Parus beavani, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 233, no. 3376 (1869) ; 



Brooks, Str. F. 1879, p. 487. 

 Parus melanolophus, Dav. N. Arch. Mus., Bull, vii., Cat. Ois. Chine, 



no. 211 (1871). 

 Parus atkinsoni, Jerd. B. Lid. ii. p. 276 (1863) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 231, no. 3343 (1869) ; Blanf. J. A. S. Beng. xii. pt. ii. p. 57 



(P. atkinsoni =P. beavani ji"«i\) ; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 183; Hume, 



t. c. p. 189. 



Adult. Similar to P. melanolophus m coloration, but much larger 

 in size, and wanting the buiF tips to the wing-covert.s. General 

 colour above dark grey, sometimes with a bluish, sometimes with an 

 olive tinge ; wing-coverts, wings, and tail uniform ashy grey, ex- 

 ternally washed with iron-grcj*, especially on the wing-coverts ; 

 crown of head and hind neck jet-black, with a crest of black feathers, 

 which are shorter and less recurved than in P. melanolophus ; on 

 the occiput and nape a large patch of white, usually with a strong 

 wash of ferruginous colour ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and part of the 

 sides of the neck white ; chin, throat, and upper half of breast 

 jet-black ; rest of breast, abdomen, and flanks dark grey ; axillaries 

 and under tail-coverts ferruginous ; most of the under wing-coverts 

 blackish, edged with whitish ; quills with whitish edgings to the 

 inner webs; "bill black; feet plumbeous: iris brown" (Jerdon). 

 Total length about 5 inches, culmen 0-52, wing 2-2-3, tail 2-2 1, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



Immature hinls have the crown and throat dull brownisli black ; 

 aU the rest of the underparts and the back dull olivc-groy. 



Hah. From Samarcand to Afghanistan, and thence throughout 

 the Himalayas to Kokonoor and the mountains of Southern China. 



Nepalese specinjcns constitute a smaller race, P. beavani. The 



