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tail-coverts ; wings and tail dusky cinereous ; superciliary stripe, 

 and outer webs of the outermost tail-feathers, white ; the rest 

 with a white tip ; a broad black eye-stripe, extending through 

 the eye and ear-coverts to the nape ; the throat black, with a 

 white line between it and the eye-streak ; chin white, the rest 

 of the body beneath rufescent white, or pale vinous, deepest on 

 the flanks and lower abdomen. 



Bill black; legs fleshy yellow; irides brown. Length 4| inches ; 

 extent 6 ; wing 2 ; tail 2 ; bill at front -fjr ; tarsus |. 



This little Tit is found throughout the Himalayas, from the far 

 North-West to Bootan. It is very common at Darjeeling about the 

 Station, at 7,000 feet of elevation, and is found up to 10,000 feet. 

 It associates in small flocks, frequenting shrubs, hedges, and high 

 trees, and lives chiefly on insects. Hutton describes the nest as 

 being ' a round ball, with a small lateral entrance, composed of moss, 

 and well lined with feathers. The eggs are five, white, with 

 a pinkish tinge, sparingly sprinkled with lilac spots, and with 

 a well defined lilac ring at the large end. The nest is placed on 

 a bank, or among creepers twining round the trunk of a tree.' 



635. ^githaliscus iouschistos, Hodgson. 



Parus, apud HoDGS., J. A. S., XIII. 942— Blyth, Cat. 549— 

 HoKSF., Cat. 608 — Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. 7, pi. 15. 



The Rufous-fronted Tit. 



Descr. — Above ashy, slightly tinged with olive : winglet, and 

 coverts of primaries black ; a broad streak over the eye black ; 

 the central line of head, and sides of head, reddish fawn color ; 

 the outer tail-feathers more or less tipped and edged externally 

 with whitish ; under parts reddish fawn or rufescent. 



Bill black ; legs yellow brown ; irides brown. Length 4j 

 inches; wing 2|- ; tail 2 ; bill at front f ; tarsus |. 



This Tit has the three outer tail-feathers graduated, with the 

 middle pair ^ inch shorter than the next pair, and its bill is sorae- 

 thino- lontrer, and more slender than in erythrocephalus. It is an 

 evident link to the true Pari, and Bonaparte includes it in the genus 

 Pcecila, of which P. palustris is the type. 



