MACHLOLOPHUS. 



It is an early riser and its loud " Did-he-do-it Did-he-do-it 

 No, he didn't " may be heard soon after dawn breaks. This call 

 is generally uttered from the top of some tree, especially the first 

 thing in the morning. 



(74) Machlolophus spilonotus subviridis. 

 THE BURMESE BLACK-SPOTTED YELLOW TIT. 



PariM subviridis Tickell (Blyth), J. A. S. B., vol. xxiv, p. 265 (1855) 

 (Tenasseriiu). 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. This is a darker bird than the last, the green of 

 the back and flanks more olive and the extent of the black greater 

 both above and on the median ventral line. 



Measurements etc. as in the last bird. 



Distribution. Burma, Siam, Shan States and south to Tenas- 

 serim, where it was obtained on Mt. Muleyit. 



Nidification. Similar to the last. The eggs measure about 

 18-5 x 13-5 mm. (Mackenzie). 



Habits. Is apparently found down as low as 3,000 feet but 

 generally keps more or less to the pine forest region of about 

 4,500 to 6,000 feet. 



(75) Machlolophus xanthogenys xanthogenys. 

 THE NORTHERN YELLOW-CHEEKED TIT. 



Parus xanthogenys Vigors, P. Z. S., i, p. 23 (1831) (Himalayas). 

 Machlolophus xanthogenys. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 55. 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. Lores, forehead, crown, crest, sides of the nape, 

 a bar on the side of the neck, a broad streak behind the eye, chin, 

 throat, centre of the breast and a broad band down the middle of 

 the abdomen black, the longer feathers of the crest tipped with 

 yellow ; a distinct supercilium over the eye and ear-coverts, a nape- 

 patch, the cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of the breast and of the upper 

 abdomen bright yellow; remainder of the lower surface olive- 

 yellow : under tail-coverts white; back and rump olive-green, 

 upper tail-coverts slaty ; scapulars and lesser wing-coverts black, 

 broadly edged with olive-green; the other coverts black tipped 

 yellow ; primary coverts dark brown ; primaries white at base, 

 and the outer ones edged with white below the emarginations ; 

 outer secondaries edged with bluish and tipped with white, the 

 inner secondaries with still broader white tips ; tail dark brown 

 suffused with ashy-blue on the outer webs, all the feathers tipped 

 with white and the outer web of the outermost pair entirely white. 



