94 PARIDE, 
Colours of soft parts. Bill black; gape fleshy ; iris pale yellow 
or creamy yellow; legs buffy yellow ; claws livid (Scully). 
Measurements. Length about 110 mm.; wing about 48 to 
52 mm.; tarsus about 13 mm.; culmen 6 mm. 
Distribution. Himalayas from Chitral to the Mishmi Hills 
over 5,000 feet, and in the Miri Hills, according to Stevens, over 
4,000 feet. 
Nidification. The breeding season of this little Tit commences 
about the middle of March and continues throughout April and 
May. The nest is a lovely little ball of moss, mixed with cob- 
webs, lichen and seed-down and is thickly lined with soft feathers 
or with feathers and seed-down mixed. About Simla it is often 
placed at the end of a branch of a déodar, at other times in small 
oaks and even in bushes and tangles of creeper. The eggs are a 
very pale pink with aring of faint red freckles round the larger 
end, but they vary from almost pure unmarked white to a 
pink with a dense dark ring of reddish brown. 100 eggs average 
13°88 x 10°57 mm. The clutch is from three to eight eggs. They 
breed at heights from 6,000 to 10,000 feet or more. 
Habits. The Red-headed Tit associates in small flocks, probably 
merely family parties, frequenting both lofty trees and low bushes 
and shrubs when hunting for food, which consists almost entirely 
of insects. It is said, however, to also eat certain fruit and nuts. 
It isas restless and energetic as the rest of the family, and keeps up 
a constant rather shrill ** tweet” as it flits or scrambles from one 
branch to another. 
It appears to be a resident wherever found, moving up and 
down very little with the change of seasons, 
(78) Aigithaliscus concinnus manipurensis. 
Hume’s Rep-Heapep Tir. 
Agithaliscus manipurensis Hume, 8. F., xi, p. 254 (1888) (Manipur) ; 
Blanf. & Oates, 1, p. 51. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Differs from tredalet in haying the eyebrow white 
and black, instead of pure white ; the pale pectoral band next the 
black throat very white and distinct and the lower plumage 
chestnut, the portion next the pectoral band being brighter than 
elsewhere. 
Colours of soft parts. Male.—Legs and feet warm reddish 
mahogany brown; claws darker; bill black; irides bright yel- 
lowish white. 
Female.—Legs and feet very pale orange-brown ; Dill black; 
irides creamy white. 
Measurements as in tredalei, perhaps averaging a trifle smaller; 
several birds have the wing under 48 mm. 
