PARUS. 



Length. 5*25 inches; wing 2-5 to 2-95 ; tail 2-05 to 2-25 ; tarsus 07 to 075 ; 

 culmen 0*46 to O'52. 



Hab The N.-W. Himalayas to Nepaul. Noted from Simla, Murree, 

 Mussoorie, Behar and Nepaul. It is one of the commonest birds in the 

 neighbourhood of Simla, where and at Dhurmsala, also at Mussoorie, it breeds 

 at elevations from 4,000 to 7,000 feet. The eggs, according to Hume, are 

 regular, somewhat elongated ovals, in some cases slightly compressed towards 

 one end. The ground is white or reddish white, thickly spotted, speckled and 

 even blotched with brick-dust red. 81260778 x 0*5255. 



671. Parus haplonotUS, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 44; Gadow, 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. viii. p. 25, sub-sp. a. Parus xanthogenys, Jerd. (nee. 

 Vigors), Madr. Journ. xi. p. 7. Parus jerdoni, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxv. 

 p. 445 J Gould, B. Asia, pt. i. Machlolophus Jerdoni (Blyth), Jerd., B. Ind. 

 ii. p. 280, No. 648 ; Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 417 ; Butler, Sir. F. 1875, p. 492 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1876, p. 260; Fairbank, Str. F. 1877, p. 407. Machlolophus 

 aplonotus, Hume, Str. F. 1878, ii, p. 405; 1879, P- IO 5- The SOUTHERN 

 YELLOW TIT. 



Similar to the last, but conspicuously larger, the back is olive grey and the 

 tips of the greater and median wing coverts are pure white ; head, sides of 

 neck and breast pale yellow ; flanks and part of the abdomen greenish grey ; 

 crest feathers plain black. Bill black ; legs plumbeous ; iris light brown. 



Length. 575 to 6 inches ; wing 2-9 to 3-15 ; tail 2'2 to 2'5 ; tarsus 078 to 

 8; culmen 0'5 to 0-55. 



Hab. Southern and Central India. Recorded from Ootacamund, Tra- 

 vancore, Madras, the Western Ghats and Saugor ; also in Coorg, Wynaad 

 and all along the range of ghauts ; in the Vindhyan range of mountains near 

 Mhow, and the jungles south-east of Nagpore. It is the southern represen- 

 tative of P. xanthogenys. I have no information as to its nidification. 



672. Parus spilonotus, Biyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 103 ; 



id., in Jard. Contr. Orn. p. 49, fig. 2 ; Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. viii. p. 26. 

 Machlolophus spilonotus, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 91 ; Gould, B. Asia, pt. ix. 

 pi. 15 ; Blyth and Walden, B. Burm. p. 1 12 ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. 1878, 

 p. 377; Oates y B. Br. Burm. i. p. 128. Parus subviridis, Tickell, J. 

 A. S. B. xxiv. p. 267. Machlolophus spilinotus, Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 281, 

 No. 649. Machlolophus subviridis, Blyth and Walden, B. Burm. p. 1 12. 

 The BLACK-SPOTTED YELLOW-TIT. 



Intermediate in size between P. xanthogenys and P. haplonolus, but 

 much brighter coloured ; upper back yellowish green, with broad black longi- 

 tudinal spots ; lower back olive brown ; crest long, the posterior feathers 

 broadly tipped with bright yellow ; occiput, nape, lores, feathers round the 

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