78 PARID®, 
Habits. Similar to those of cinereus. This little Titmouse is 
really more of a hills than a plains bird, though in the winter it 
wanders over a very wide extent of country. It prefers hills and 
broken country, more especially such as are fairly well covered 
with trees and forest, and it is found in the hills of Southern 
India practically up to their summits. 
(56) Parus major tibetanus. 
Tue Trpetan GReEatT-TIt. 
Parus major tibetanus Hartert, Vog. Pal., p. 8346 (1905) (Chaksam), 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Back decidedly green and the lower parts suffused 
with yellow. Its size alone at once distinguishes it from com- 
mivtus and minor, and it has more white on the tail than either 
of these races. 
Colours of soft parts as in cinereus, but tarsi apparently paler 
and brighter slate-blue. 
Measurements. Wing 66 to 79 mm., generally over 70; tail 
66 to 74 mm. 
Distribution. S.E. Tibet, Yunnan and N.E. Kauri Kachin 
Hills. Chumba Valley, Sikkim. 
Nidification. A common breeder in the Gyantse Plain, Tibet, 
breeding both in holes in trees and in walls aud banks. Eggs of 
a clutch, taken from a small natural hole in a willow, measure 
about 18-8 x 13:5 mm., and are richly marked for Great-Tit’s eggs. 
The nest was of wool and Mouse-hare (Lagomys) fur. It was 
taken on 18.5.17. 
Habits. Those of the species. 
(57) Parus major commixtus. - 
THE Burmise Grueatr-Tir. 
Parus commiztus Swinhoe, Ibis, p. 63 (1868) (8. China). 
Parus minor. Blant. & Oates, i, p. 48. 
Vernacular names. Buinwm memka (Burmese). 
Description. Differs from tébetanus in having the green con- 
fined to the upper back and scapulars, the yellow below is 
obsolete or very slight, and the white on the outer tail-feathers 
is less extensive. From the true minor of Japan and N. China 
it differs in being much less green above, and more buff or 
vinaceous rather than yellow below. 
Colours of soft parts as in cinereus. 
Measurements. Wing 61 to 68 mm., generally under 66; tail 
535 to 61 mm. 
Distribution. Tenasserim, Eastern Burma, Siam, Shan States 
and S. China. 
