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Genus REMIZ Stejn., 1886. 
This genus contains a group of small birds generally known as 
Penduline Tits, extending from South and East Europe to China. 
They are all small in size, have square tails, no erests, and have 
no green on the upper plumage. 
They are more or less migratory in their habits and only enter 
India as rather rare winter visitors. 
(86) Remiz coronatus. 
Tur Penputine Tr, 
Agithalus coronatus Severtz., Izv. Obsck. Moskov, viii, p. 136 (1873) 
(Chodynt, Syr Daria). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Crown white, varying considerably in extent and 
the hinder part much marked with black; forehead, lores, sides 
of crown, cheeks and ear-coverts black, running round the nape as 
a broad band ; chin, throat and neck white, forming a collar below 
the black band; back dark rufous, paling to dull fulvous on the 
lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts; tail blackish brown, 
most of the outer webs and edges of inner webs white; lesser and 
median wing-coverts like the back but duller; greater coverts 
blackish suffused with deep chestnut and with broad tips of pale 
rufous-cream ; quills blackish brown edged with white. Below 
white, suffused with vinous or rufous on breast and flanks ; under 
tail-coverts white. 
Measurements. Length about 105 mm.; wing 52 to 55 mm. ; tail 
about 42 to 45 mm.; culmen 5 to 6mm.; tarsus about 12 mm. 
Distribution. Transcaspia, West Turkestan, to East Persia, 
Baluchistan and extreme N.W. India. It has been recorded from 
Sukkur in Sind (7. R&R. Bell), Lachi and Kohat (Whitchead & 
Magrath) and Jhelum (H. Whistler). 
Nidification. This little Tit makes a wonderful retort-shaped 
nest of vegetable wool and down lined with the softest seed-down 
and with an entrance near the top. It is fastened to the end of 
a branch of a tree. 
The eggs, four or five in number, are white faintly marked 
with reddish specks. Four eggs in my collection measure about 
14:3x11-0mm. The birds are said to breed during Mavand June. 
Habits. Apparently very similar to those of the Long-tailed 
Tit. In Sukkur, Bell found them in small parties in well-watered, 
dense tamarisk-acacia jungles but in Kohat they were noticed 
in flocks numbering as many as forty. Here they were seen 
frequenting Shisham-trees and also orchards and ecamel-thorn 
scrub. The call-note is said to resemble that of the White-eye 
(Zosterops) and to be constantly uttered as they hunt about for 
insects, their principal food, though they will also eat seeds and 
fruit, as do most other Tits. 
