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In spring he is joined by his “better-half,” where they add a few 
straws and feathers to the old family nest. I have a dense _ potatoe 
ereeper growing against the office, which was at one time a glazed 
verandah, when the creeper is in flower, pretty well throughout the 
year, it is visited by numbers of small birds which, seem, hardly to 
_ observe me, as I write at the window. Green-backed Tit is usually 
bolder than the rest ; when it comes to pick insects off the flowers. 
It is a pert little bird ; always keeps its feathers well preened, looks 
spruce, and meets you, first thing in the morning with a bob of the 
head, a sort of low bow, and jerks up its tail, wishing you a hearty 
greeting with a cheerful chirrup. I have not met its equal for 
boldness and cheek, should you have a broken pane of glass in your 
office window ; this tit will all but pop its head in to see what you 
are doing. When seen on the “Kharani” tree, just opposite, it is 
generally swinging about among the dangling flower buds, quite like 
an acrobat at work on the trapeze. Its height of accomplishment 
seems to be to hang head down, holding on with its strong little 
claws, and inspecting minutely the vertically drooping flowers, where 
insects consider a safe place to seek refuge from their feathered 
assailants. This Parus is 5% inches; bill black; irides brown ; 
colour is olive green, above, on the back, extending to tail coverts ; 
head black with white on the sides, cheeks and a nuchal mark ; 
wings grey ; median and greater coverts are black with white tips ; 
quills are black, most of them are tipped white; tail black with 
white tips ; the neck, breast and part of abdomen black ; yellow 
below. 
This prettily marked tit, does not possess a musical warble ; but 
it has been liberally endowed with a pleasant and cheerful whistle, 
when happy, it has a far reaching call for so small a bird, a sort of 
tec-tee-cha-cha, with a few other variation according to its dis- 
position. 
(650) MELANOCHLORA SULTANEA, Sullan  Yellow-Ti/, comes 
rather as a surprise for it breaks the record of Tits of small size. It 
ascends to no great altitude, like the Tits, it prefers a semitropical, 
climate and surroundings. It is usually found on the outskirts of 
forests ; on the Runjeet River it is frequently seen. This bird 
when met with is easily recognised. It is big in size; thrush like 
in iorm. Sultanea is 8 inches in length ; colour, above, is black with 
a glossy greenish tinge, which shows out prominently. The Sultan 
Yellow-Tit’s pointed, bright, yellow crest onthe head, reminding us 
(slightly) of some of the Oriental potentates ; underparts of the bird 
are bright-yellow.’ This large tit presents an unique picture of one of 
the handsomest of ampelidw we have in the district, 
