Birds of Kohat and Kurram. 107 



Anthoscopus coronatus. The Turkestan Penduline Tit. 



Hartert, Pal. Vogel, i. p. 392. 



Lacln, 1500 ft., 25th March; S ? ad., Kohat, 1760 ft., 

 7th-8th April; S ad., Kohat, 1760 ft., 18th March. 



Major Magrath first observed a party of these Tits on a 

 Peach-tree in his garden in April 1905. Since then we 

 have met with the bird regularly from mid-March till 

 mid-April in parties of from two or three to forty or 

 more, chiefly frequenting Shisham trees, but also orchards 

 and Camel-thorn scrub. The call-note resembles that of 

 Zosto'ops palpebrosa and is constantly uttered. 



Mr. T. R. Bell, I.F.S., was the first to discover this 

 species in India. He met with parties of it iu February 1904 

 in the tamarisk-acacia scrub-juugle near Sukkur, Sind, 

 and procured several examples {vide J. B. N. H. S. xvii. 

 p. 244). 



[37.] ^GiTHALTscus LEucoGEXYs. The Wliitc-cheeked 

 Tit. 



Fulton, J. B. N. H. S. xvi. p. 46 (resident and very 

 common from 6000 to 12,000 ft. in Lower Chitral) ; Ward, 

 op. cit. xvii. p. 109. 



333. S ad. Safed Koh, 1800 ft., 20th July. 



391. ? ad. Samaua, 5000 ft., 5th November. 



A resident in the Upper Kurram Valley and on the 

 Samana, being largely reinforced on the latter in winter : 

 some individuals descending to the Miranzai and Samilzai 

 Valleys down to 2500 ft., where I have met with parties as 

 late as the 9th of April. 



Breeds freely in the Ilex-scrub near Peiwar from 6000 to 

 8000 ft. Nesting-operations must commence towards the 

 end of March, as a nest found on the 1st of May contained 

 fully fledged young. The fabric is usually placed near the 

 top of an Ilex-bush from three to seven feet above the ground. 

 It is egg-shaped and rather like that of the British Long- 

 tailed Tit, but a good deal smaller and not quite so neat. 

 It is made of moss and cobwebs outside, lined with a little 

 grass, with a thick inner lining of feathers. The opening is 



