186 PARID^E. 



eye, a broad supercilium, cheeks, ear coverts and sides of the neck bright 

 yellow ; tertiaries tipped, but less conspicuously margined with white ; throat 

 and front of the neck not so broad as in xanthogenys ; lesser wing coverts 

 black, tipped with slaty ; median coverts black, tipped with white ; quills black, 

 the first two plain and the next three edged with white ; bases of 2nd to 8th 

 primaries with a patch of white ; tail black edged with slaty ; outer feathers 

 entirely white on outer web, the rest, except the central ones, tipped with 

 white. Bill black ; legs plumbeous ; iris light brown. 



Length. 5-5 inches; wing 2-8 ; tail 2-15 ; tarsus 072 ; culmen 0-55. 



Bab. Eastern Nepaul, Sikkim, Khasia, hills of Assam, also Bhootan, 

 extending into Tenasserim. Jerdon says it is common about Darjeeling, and 

 is chiefly found from 4,000 to 5,500 feet. According to Davison, not unlike 

 other species of the genus, it keeps about the tops of large trees, especially 

 those about the open camping grounds. 



673. Partis melanolophus, Vigors, P. z. S. 1830, p. 22 ; Gould, 



Cent. Him. B. pi. 30, fig. 2 ; Jerd., Ma.d. Journ. xi. p. 8 ; Gould, B. Asia, 

 pt. xi. ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 12; Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. viii. p. 28. 

 Machlolophus melanolophus, Cab. Mus. Rein., i. p. 91. Lophophanes melano- 

 lophus, Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 273, No. 635 ; Brooks, Str. F. 1875^.253; 



War dlaw- Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 61. The CRESTED BLACK-TIT. 



Crown of the head and hind neck glossy black ; the long recurved crest 

 also black ; lores, space below the eyes, ear coverts, cheeks, and a patch on 

 the nape white ; chin, entire throat and upper breast deep black ; mantle, 

 back, upper tail coverts and lesser wing coverts dark iron grey ; quills ashy 

 grey, margined on their outer webs with dark iron grey of a slightly bluish 

 tinge, the secondaries narrowly tipped with white ; greater and median wing 

 coverts ashy grey with buffish white spots terminally ; tail ashy grey, margined 

 externally with dark iron grey ; lower breast, abdomen and flanks iron grey, 

 tinged with rufous; sides of the breast, axillaries, under wing and under tail 

 coverts rufous. Bill blackish ; legs plumbeous ; iris pale brown. 



Length. 4*25 to 4*5 inches; wing 2-3 to 2-5; tail 175; tarsus O'6S ; 

 culmen 0*4. 



Immature birds have the general colour above dull ashy grey; the crown of 

 the head black with a short crest and the white on the nape little developed ; 

 the cheeks and ear coverts are dingy white. (Gadow?) 



ffab.N.-W. Himalayas, ranging into Eastern Afghanistan. Common at 

 Simla, Mussoorie, Murree and Sikkim. 



674. Parus rilfonuchalis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xviii. p. 810; 

 Gould, B. Asia, pt. xi. ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1 88 1, p. 72 ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 568 ; 

 Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. viii. p. 29 Lophophanes rufonuchalis, 



