3. ACEEDTTLA. 59 



Adult male. Forehead aud centre of crown white, graduall)- passing 

 into pale buff on the occiput and nape ; sides of crown brownish 

 black, extending as a broad band from the lores over the e3-e to 

 the sides of the nape ; mantle, scapulars, and back ashy grey, with 

 an olive or fulvous tinge ; tail, quills, aud wing-coverts brownish 

 grey, narrowly edged with grey ; most of the tail-feathers broadly 

 tipped with whitish ; cheeks, chin, throat, fore neck, and sides of 

 neck white; across the upper breast a rather indistinct brownish 

 band ; ear-covcrts brownish buff, with darker longitudinal stripes ; 

 all the rest of the underparts reddish fawn or pinky isabelliue ; bill 

 black, feet fleshy yellow, iris brown. Total length about -l-o inches 

 culmen 0-37-0-4, wing 2--1-2-0, tail 2-3-2-0, tarsus 0-65. 



Females and immature birds have the underparts pale isabelline, 

 the throat, flanks, and abdomen with a strong pinkish tinge ; the 

 semicollar across the breast very slightly pronounced. 



Jlab. Northern and North-western India. 



«. Ad., b. Imm. North India. J. Goidd, Esq. [C.]. (Types 



®'^- of species.) 



f^e. (5 sk. N.W.Himalayas. Capt. .Stackhouse Pinwill fP. 



f,ff. Ad.sk. N.W.Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill [P. 



A. Lc?] ad. sk. N.W.Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill [P. 



7. Acredula leucogenys. 



Orites leucogenvs, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 1.39 ; Horsf. ^- Moore, 



tat. U. ±j.l. Co. Mus. p. 374. 

 ^githalus leucogenys, Gray, Haml-I. B. i. p. 230, no. 3424 (1SG9) 

 ^githahscus leucogenys, SeuUy, Ibis, 1881, p. 567. 



Intermediate in coloration between A. niveogularis and A jou- 

 schistos. Crown of head reddish brown, passing into olive-grev on 

 the rest of the upper parts ; from the lores a broad black band 

 through the eye, extending to the sides of the hind neck, where it 

 IS mottled with whitish ; car-coverts greyish brown ; cheeks and 

 sides of neck pure white; chin and throat deep black, passing into 

 blackish chestnut on the fore neck and ending rather abruijtly • 

 rest of underparts like A. niveorjularis • bill black; feet fleshy 

 yellow. Culmen 0-35 inch, wing 2-1, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-65. 



Hab. Afghanistan and Upper Cashmere. 



"•-'^^•^'^- Afghanistan (6V;i5?/A). India Museum. 



^ ^ Ad. ^. Pushut (Griffith). InSt^?ir"^^- 



d. S ad. sk Darel, July 1880. Major Biddulph TC 1 



e. 6 juv. sk. Darel, Jidy 1880. Major Biddulph [C.]. 



8. Acredula caudata*. 



La Mesange a longue queue, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 570. 



Parus caudatus, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 3J2 (1766) ; Bes^ke, Vdg. Kurlands, 



* Some of the following references, especiallv the French ones, beIon<' mo«t 

 probably lo the Central furui, A. ronea, ' ° 



