98 PARIDA, 
Distribution. Garhwal, Simla Hills, into Kashmir and thence 
into Afghanistan. 
Nidification: Whitehead (Ibis, Jan. 1909) describes the nesting 
of this species in the Kurram Valley, where it breeds freely in the 
ilex scrub between 4,000 and 8,000 feet. The nest is like that of 
the British Long-tailed Tit but smaller and less neat. It is made 
of moss and cobwebs externally, then a little green grass and 
finally a thick lining of feathers. The eggs seem to number from 
five to eight and to be very like those of the Red-headed Tit and 
measure 14-7 x 9°56 mm. 
‘hey breed from the end of March to early May. 
Habits. In summer the White-cheeked Tit is found between 
5,000 or 6,000 and 12,000 feet, but in winter descends much lower 
and down to some 2,000 feet. Whitehead obtained a specimen, 
presumably after it had bred, at Safed Koh at 1,800 feet on the 
20th July. 
It goes about in parties of eight or nine in scrub-jungle, con- 
tinually uttering its call-note, which Whitehead syllabifies as 
‘‘ prit-t-t.” It is sometimes found in company with Grey Tits. 
(84) Aigithaliscus niveogularis, 
Tur WHIVE-THROATED TITY. 
Orites niveogularis Moore, P.Z.S., xxii, p. 140 (1855) (North India). 
Agithaliscus niveogularis. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 52. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Forehead and front of crown, cheeks, chin, throat 
and sides of neck white; lores and a very broad eye-band black ; 
the two bands partially blending on the nape; ear-coverts hair- 
brown slightly streaked with whitish ; hind crown and nape butfy 
brown; upper plumage, wing-coverts and edges of the wing- 
feathers ashy grey, all but the latter tinged with isabelline ; tail 
brown, the outermost feather with the outer web white, the next 
two white along the shaft and at the tip; lower plumage pinkish 
buff, divided from the white of the throat by a broad brown 
band. 
Colours of soft parts. Bill dark slaty; legs reddish; irides pale 
yellowish. 
Measurements. Total length about 110 mm.; wing about 
64 mm.; tail about 56 mm.; tarsus about 18 mm.; culmen 
about 8 mm. 
Distribution. From Garhwal and Simla to Gilgit, Chitral and 
Baluchistan, between 6,000 and 14,000 feet. 
Nidification. The eggs of this bird were first taken by 
Whymper in June 1905 at Dumdar, Garhwal and more recently 
other nests by Messrs. B. B. Osmaston and P. Dodsworth. The 
