YUHINA. 3ol9 
Measurements. Total length about 165 mm.; wing about 74 to 
77 mm.; tail about 74 mm.; tarsus about 24 mm.; culmen about 
16 to 17 mm. 
This bird only differs from Y. d. diademata in being darker 
throughout and im having the breast and sides of the head more 
grey. 
Distribution. Yunnan and Kachin Hills. 
Nidification. Breeds in the Bhamo Hills in April and May, 
making a flimsy, almost transparent cup of black roots with a few 
scraps of bracken, well plastered with cobwebs and lined with fine 
black roots and fern-rachides. They are invariably placed low down 
in brambles, bracken or coarse grass and measure outwardly about 
4" by 22" deep. The eggs are two in number, very rarely three, 
and are long ovals in shape, the ground-colour a dull greenish blue 
with profuse blotches and specks all over of umber-brown. 
Twenty-two eggs average 20°5 X 14:9 mm. 
Habits. A common bird in the Bhamo Hills, going about in small 
flocks in higher saplings and trees. Harington says “They are 
very Tit-like in their habits and notes, continually raising the crest 
and so revealing the conspicuous white patch at the back of the 
head.” They seem to be found between 4,500 and 7,000 feet. 
Fig. 58.—Head of Y. o. occipitalis. 
(342) Yuhina occipitalis occipitalis. 
Yuhina oceipitais Hodgs., As. Res., xix, p. 166 (1836) (Nepal) ; 
Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 212. 
Vernacular names. T'wringing-pho (Lepcha). 
Description. I’orehead and crest slaty-grey with whitish shaft- 
streaks, posterior feathers of crest and nape chestnut; hind neck 
ashy ; upper plumage rufous-brown; the wings and tail brown, 
the outer webs of the feathers suffused and margined with rufous- 
brown ; a circle of white feathers round the eye; ear-coverts and 
the region of the eye slaty-grey, streaked whitish; a narrow 
interrupted black moustachial streak; chin, throat, breast and 
sides of neck vinous ; sides of the abdomen rusty-grey, centre pale 
chestnut; thighs, vent and under tail-coverts bright chestnut ; 
under wing-coverts and edge of wing white. 
