PARINA, 249 
Genus, Machlolophus, Cabanis. 
Head crested ; plumage much mixed with yellow and green. 
Machlolophus xanthogenys, Vigors. 
647.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 279; Swinhoe and 
Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 125, p. 127. 
THE YELLOW-CHEEKED TT. 
Length, 525; wing, 2°75; tail, 212; tarsus, 06; bill at 
front, 0°33. 
Bill black ; irides light-brown ; legs plumbeous. 
Head (fully crested), wings and tail black, the latter tipped 
white, and the tertiaries laterally edged throughout with white , 
nape, posterior part of crest, and a small superciliary stripe, 
bright yellow; back, scapulars, and rump, light olive-green, the 
scapulars with a few black marks; wing-coverts tipped with 
pale-yellow; the outer primaries white-edged, and with a white 
bar near their base, the others bluish externally ; tail dusky-grey, 
white tipped ; cheeks, sides of neck, sides of breast and abdomen, 
and under tail-coverts yellow, passing to greenish on the flanks 
and under tail-coverts; lores, a stripe on each side of the neck 
from the eye, chin, throat, and middle of breast, black. 
The Yellow-cheeked Tit occurs on the slopes of the Vindhian 
hills, near Mhow, and in the woods at their base. It has not 
been recorded from elsewhere within our limits. 
Machlolophus aplonotus, Bly. 
648.—M. jerdoni, Blyth—Jerdon’s Birds of India; . Vol, Tt, 
p. 280; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 492; 
Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 413. 
THE SOUTHERN YELLOW TIT. 
Length, 6; expanse, 10; wing, 3; tail, 2°5; tarsus, 0°7; bill at 
front, 0°35. 
Bill black ; irides light-brown ; legs plumbeous. 
Very similar to the last, but conspicuously larger; has the 
back less tinged with yellow, being dull green with a slaty tinge ; 
the yellow portion of the plumage not so intense in hue, and 
the yellow sincipital streak short, and not continued forward 
over the eye. 
This Tit is a permanent resident on the Sahyadri Range, and in 
the well wooded tracts adjoining ; it also occurs on Mount <Aboo ; 
it is unknown in Sind. 
Jerdon states that he found it common on the Vindhian 
Range, near Mhow, but a bird that I procured from thence 
proved to belong to the preceding species. 
Tripe, Conirostres. 
Bill usually entire at the tip, thick, more or less conic, with 
the lower mandible deeper than in most of the preceding tribe ; 
