88 PARIDE. 
Genus SYLVIPARUS Burton, 1835. 
This genus closely resembles Parus but differs in having a 
proportionately shorter, smaller bill and a square or very slightly 
forked tail; plumage greenish with no ventral band. There is 
only one species. 
Sylviparus modestus. 
Key to Subspecies. 
.88. 
A. Above olive-green, below ochraceous yellow .... 8. m. Meare 
B. Above darker and duller, below dull yellowish [p. 88. 
MMO odo ceo b4odbcopadtoo 46 toe oR ON amo Onoe S. m. saturatior, 
C. Above paler and brighter, below brighter and [p. 89. 
palerand morecyellow o. . sec aee- ce see sss. S. m. simlaensis, 
(70) Sylviparus modestus modestus. 
THE YELLOW-BROWED Tit. 
Sylviparus modestus Burton, P. Z.S., p. 154 (1835) (Nepal); Blanf. 
& Oates, 1, p. 53. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Upper plumage, sides of the neck, the wings and 
tail olive-green, the feathers of the crown centred with brown ; 
sides of the head yellowish green slightly mottled with brown; a 
ring of feathers round the eye and a short eye-brow yellow; 
lower plumage yellow tinged with ochraceous ; edge of wing and 
under wing-coverts bright yellow. 
Colours of soft parts. Bill dark plumbeous, palest along the 
commissure and at base of the lower mandible; legs and feet 
plumbeous ; iris very dark brown (Davison). 
Measurements. Total length about 100 mm.; tail about 
35 mm.; wing 60 to 64 mm. ; tarsus about 15 mm. ; culmen about 
o mm. 
Distribution. Garhwal, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and hills N. of 
the Brahmaputra at least as far East as the Abor Hills. 
Nidification. Nothing known. 
Habits. A bird of the hills above 6,000 feet. In winter it 
apparently comes much lower, possibly on rare occasions into the 
plains. 
(71) Sylviparus modestus simlaensis. 
THE Stmua YELLOW-BROWED Tr. 
Sylviparus modestus simlaensis Stuart Baker, Bull. B. O. C., xxxviii, 
p- 8 (1917) (Simla). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Differs from the true modestus in being a much 
brighter yellower green above and in being paler and purer 
yellow below. 
