82 Capt. Beavan on various Indian Birds. 



617. Siva cyanouroptera. Blue-winged Hill-Tit, 

 Darjeeling collection, 1862. Two specimens. 



618. MiNLA iGNEOTiNCTA. Red-tailed Hill-Tit. 

 Darjeeling collection, 1862. Two specimens. 



619. MiNLA CASTANEiCEPs. Chestnut-headcd Hill-Tit. 

 Darjeeling collection, 1862. Two specimens. 



620. MiNLA ciNEREA. Dusky-grccn Hill-Tit. 

 Darjeeling collection, 1862. One specimen. 



623. IxuLus FLAvicoLLis. Yellow-napcd Flowerpecker. 

 Darjeeling collection, 1862. Five specimens. 



624. IxuLUS OCCIPITALIS. Chesnut-headed Flowerpecker. 

 Darjeeling collection, 1862. Two specimens. 



631. ZosTEROPs PALPEBROsus. Whitc-cyed Tit. 



Procured ouce only in Maunbboom, in the hilly country 

 above Chalta, in January 1865. I found the species frequenting 

 high trees and flowering creepers in moderate-sized parties. It 

 is seen also in gai'dens about Umballah. 



Feb. 1866. Dr. Jerdon describes the legs as "reddish horny/' 

 in a fresh specimen before me they are slate-blue. 



A very good specimen, procured at Simla on 18th June, 1866, 

 has the dimensions as follows : — Length 4 ; wing a little over 

 2 ; tail nearly 1*5 ; tarsus "5625; bill from front nearly '375 ; 

 extent 5'75 ; bill above and at tip dark horny, below lead-colour ; 

 legs light lead-blue, much lighter than the bill. This is a very 

 elegant little bird, but ought hardly, I think, to be called a 

 Tit. I should be inclined to place it as a connecting link be- 

 tween the true Paridce and, perhaps, Abrornis. Its note, when 

 alarmed, or calling to its fellows, is a loud " twee,'' " twee/' any- 

 thing but a " feeble twitter," as described by Dr. Jerdon. About 

 Simla it frequents thick umbrageous trees, apparently for the 

 sake of the Phytophaga it comes across in them — such as oaks, 

 walnuts, and in gardens plums and apricots. 



634. jEgithaliscus erythrocephalus. Red-headed Tit. 

 Darjeeling collection, 1862. Three specimens. 

 This species occurs at Simla in flocks of eight or ten, or more. 

 They follow one another (like the English Long-tailed Tit) in 



