jEGlTHALISCUS. 93 



Genus JEGITHALISCUS Cabanis, 1850. 



The genus ^Et/itlialiscus contains a group of very small Titmouses 

 with tails longer in proportion and more graduated than in Parus. 

 There is no crest but the feathers of the cro\vn are very long and 

 full. There is no ventral band. 



Key to Species. 



A. Chin white, throat hlack AL. concinnus, p. 93. 



B. Chin and upper throat black in a <-shape Ai,. bonvaloti, p. 96. 



C. Chin and throat broadly hlack JE. leucoyenys, p. 97. 



D. Chin and throat all white AL. nioeigularis, p. 98. 



E. Chin and throat with silver-white centre 



and rufescent sides AC. ioschistos, p. 99. 



^Ig-ithaliscus concinnus Gould, 1855. 



Our little Indian Tits hitherto known as erythroceplialus are 

 only a geographical race of the Chinese concinnus, moreover the 

 name itself cannot be used for this Tit as it is invalidated by 

 Linne's Pants erythroceplialus, x. ed. p. 191 (1758), and I have 

 therefore had to give it a new subspecific name. 



Key to Subspecies. 



A. Broad supercilium white AL. c. iredalei, p. 93. 



B. Supercilium mixed black and white AS. e. manipurensis, 



C. Supercilium all black [p. 94. 



a. Crown ochre ; pectoral band dark and 



well developed JE. c. talifuensis, p. 95. 



b. Crown brownish buff; pectoral band paler AL. c. piilchellus, p. 95. 



(77) .ZEgithaliscus concinnus iredalei. 

 THE KED-HEADED TIT. 



AL(/it1ialiscus concinnus iredalei Stuart Baker, Bull. B. 0. C., xli, p. 2 



(1920) (Simla). 

 jEgithaliscus erythrocephalus. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 50. 



Vernacular names. Pyiony-Samyi (Lepcha). 



Description. Forehead, crown and nape chestnut ; a broad eye- 

 brow from the eye to the nape white ; lores, round the eye, ear- 

 coverts, a baud under the eyebrow and a large round patch on the 

 throat black ; chin and a moustachial streak white ; remainder of 

 the lower plumage ferruginous, with a paler band across the 

 breast next to the black of the throat ; upper plumage and wing- 

 coverts bluish grey; primary wing-coverts and winglet dark 

 brown ; quills brown, narrowly edged with bluish grey ; tail dark 

 brown suffused with bluish grey, the outer web of the outermost 

 feather white, the inner tipped with white ; the next two feathers 

 tipped with white. 



