100. PAEID.^. 



Genus REMIZ Stejn., 1SS6. 



This genus contains a group of small birds generally kiio\Mi as 

 Penduline Tits, extending from South and East Europe to China. 



They are all small in size, have square tails, no crests, aud have 

 no green on tlie np\)ev plumage. 



They are more or less migratory in their liabits and only enter 

 India as rather rare winter visitors. 



(86) Kemiz coronatus. 



The Pe]s'D[jli>'e Tit. 



jEgitlialus coronatvs Severtz., Izv. Obsck. Moskov, viii, p. 136 (1873) 

 (Chodynt, Syr Daria). 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. Crown white, varying considerably in extent ar.d 

 the hinder part much marked with black : forehead, lores, sides 

 of crown, cheeks and ear-coverts black, running round the nape as 

 a broad band ; chin, throat and neck white, forming a collar below 

 the black band ; back dark rufous, paling to dull fulvous on the 

 lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts; tail blackish brown, 

 most of the outer webs and edges of inner webs white; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts like the back but duller; greater coverts 

 blackish suffused with deep chestnut and with broad tips of pale 

 rufous-cream ; quills blackish brown edged with white. Below 

 white, suffused with vinous or rufous on breast and flanks ; under 

 tail-coverts white. 



Measurements. Length about 105 mm. ; wing 52 to 55 mm. ; tail 

 about 42 to 45 mm. ; calmen 5 to 6 mm. ; tarsus about 12 mm. 



Distribution. Transcaspia, West Turkestan, to East Persia, 

 Baluchistan and extreme N.W. India. It has been recorded from 

 Sukkur in bind {T. K. Bell), Lachi and Kohat {Whitdiead t^' 

 Magratli) and Jhelum {H. Wiistler). 



Nidification. This little. Tit makes a wonderful retort-shaped 

 nest of vegetable wool and down lined with the softest seed-down 

 and with an entrance near the top. It is fastened to llie end of 

 a branch of a tree. 



The eggs, four or five in number, are white faintly marked 

 with reddish specks. Eour eggs in my collection measure about 

 14-3 X ll'O mm. The birds are said to breed during May and June. 

 Habits. Apparently very similar to those of the Long-tailed 

 Tit. In iSukkur, Bell found them in small parties in well-watered, 

 dense tamarisk-acacia jungles but in Kohat they were noticed 

 in flocks numbei'ing as many as forty. Here they were seen 

 frequenting Shisham-trees and also orchards and camel-thorn 

 scrub. The call-note is said to resemble that of the AVhite-eye 

 (Zostero2)s) and to be constantly uttered as they hunt about for 

 insects, their principal food, though they will also eat seeds and 

 fruit, as do most other Tits. 



