184 PARID^E. 



Crown of the head, sides of neck, chin, throat, breast and middle of the 

 abdomen glossy blue black ; ear coverts and patch on the occiput white ; hind 

 neck yellow ; quills black, edged externally with blue at the base and white 

 terminally ; secondaries and tertiaries broadly tipped with white ; median and 

 greater coverts black, edged with blue on their outer margin and tipped with 

 white, forming two wing bars ; lesser coverts grey ; back and rump olive 

 green ; upper tail coverts and tail blackish, strongly tinged with blue, the 

 latter with white tips, the outer pair with the outer web white for some distance ; 

 under tail coverts, thighs, and some of the feathers of the lower abdomen 

 black, with white tips ; rest of the under surface of the body sulphur yellow, 

 the flanks tinged with greenish. Bill black ; legs plumbeous ; iris brown. 



Length. 4*5 inches to 5-2 ; wing 2-5 to 2 '62 ; tail 2*2 to 2-5 ; tarsus 075 ; 

 culmen 0-5. 



Hab. Himalayas and the mountain regions of Assam and Southern China. 

 According to Jerdon it is very common in the Himalayas, descending lower 

 than about 5,OOO feet. It is also common on the top of the Khasia hills, and 

 about Darjeeling, Dhurmsala, Simla, Murree, Nepaul, Sikkim and Bhootan. 

 It breeds throughout the Himalayas at elevations of from 4,000 to 8,000 feet 

 from Maj-ch to June. Eggs, 4^-5 in number, not unlike those of the 

 preceding species, but smaller. 



670. Pattis xanthogetiys, Vigors^ P. 2. S. 1831, p. 23; Gould, 



Cent. Him. B. pi. 22, fig. I ; Jerd., Madr. Journ. xi. p. 7 ; Blyth, Cat. B. 

 Mus. As. Soc p. 103; Hutton, J. A. S. B. xvii. pt. ii., p. 960; Gould, B. 

 Asia pt. ix., pi. 14; GadoWi Cat., B. Br. Mus. viii. p s 25. Machlolophus 

 xanthogenys, Cab. Mus. Hein. p. c)t ; Jerd., B. Irid. ii. p. 279; Brooks, Ibis, 

 1875, p. 253. The YELLOW-CHEEKED Tit. 



Crown of the head, which is fully crested, black ; occiput, lores, cheeks, 

 sides of the neck, superciliary stripe and breast bright yellow, also the posterior 

 part of crest ; Chin, throat, a line down the middle of the breast and the centre 

 of the abdomen black; flanks and axillaries dull greenish yellow; under .tail 

 coverts pale yellow ; mantle, back and rump olive green; scapulars black, edged 

 with olive green ; wing coverts black, broadly tipped with pale yellowish white ; 

 quills black, the innermost secondaries largely tipped and edged with white ; 

 the outer ones with narrow tips and greyish edges; outer primaries edged 

 externally With white, and with white bases forming a white bar or alar band ; 

 Upper tail coverts edged with bluish grey ; tail black, tipped with white, the 

 outer webs of some of the feathers bluish grey and the outer pair with the whole 

 outer web white ; thighs pale yellowish white. Bill black ; legs plumbeous ; 

 iris light brown. 



The flanks, sides of breast and abdomen of the immature birds are dull 

 yellow, and the black on the abdominal region is not developed, 



