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LEIOTRICHINZ—PARIN &. 247 
Famity, Ampelida. 
Tarsus short or moderate; feet fitted for perching, in some 
groups strong and scansorial ; wings moderate ; tail short or moder- 
ate ; bill various, usually strong, somewhat conic; often of bright, 
showy, and variegated plumage. 
Sus-ramILy, Leiotrichine. 
Bill usually short, more or less wide at the base, lengthened 
and slightly curved in a few, entire in some, notched in others; 
tail short or moderate, even or slightly rounded ; tarsi short, stout ; 
feet strong ; claws moderately curved, sharp. 
Genus, Zosterops. 
Bill slightly notched, curved; eyes with a circle of white 
feathers ; nostrils exposed ; third and fourth primaries longest. 
Zosterops palpebrosa, Tem. 
631.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 265; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 491; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 413; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 174; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 127. 
THE WHITE-EYED TIT. 
Length, 4:5 ; expanse, 6°5 ; wing, 2°33 ; tail, 1°7; tarsus, 0°75; bill 
at front, 0°33 to 0-4, 
Bill blackish, horny at base beneath ; irides light yellow-brown ; 
legs reddish-horny. 
Above light siskin-green, with a circle of close white feathers 
round the eyes; throat and upper breast canary yellow; belly 
bluish-white ; leg feathers, lower tail-coverts, and some of the 
feathers on the abdomen, tinged with pale-yellow. 
The White-eyed Tit is a common permanent resident in the 
Deccan, breeding from April to September; the nest is a soft, 
delicate, little cup, suspended between two twigs, occasionally in 
a fork, and is composed of fine grass, roots, &c., attached to the 
twigs from which it is suspended by cobwebs or vegetable fibres. 
The eggs, two or three in number, are of a moderately length- 
ened oval shape, pointed at one end, of a pale blue color, quite un- 
spotted. They average 0°62 inches in length by about 0°47 in 
breadth. 
In other parts of the Presidency it only occurs, I believe, as a 
cold weather visitant ; it is extremely rare in Sind. 
Sus-FamiLy, Parinee. 
Bill typically rather short, conic, stout, entire, the nares tufted ; 
wings moderate, somewhat rounded ; tail short or moderate, long 
ina few; tarsus and fect short, stout ; hind-toe long ; claws well 
curved. 
