PARUS, 



B> Ind. ii. p. 273, No. 640 ; Hume and Henderson, Lahore to Farkand, 

 p. 167; Brooks, Sir. F. 1875, p. 253; War dlaw- Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 62. 

 Lopophanes Beavani, Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 275, No. 641. Parus Beavani, Brooks, 

 Sir. F. 1879, p. 487. Parus Atkinsoni, Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 273,^.643; 

 Blanford, J. A. S. B. xii.pt. ii., p. 57 ; id., Sir. F. 1879, p. 183 ; Hume, /. c . 

 p. 189. The RUFOUS-NAPED or SIMLA BLACK-TIT. 



Crown of the head, including the crest, also the hind neck, chin, throat and 

 breast glossy black ; nape pale ferruginous ; cheeks, ear coverts and sides of 

 the neck white ; lower breast, abdomen and flanks dark grey with a rufescent 

 tinge ; axillaries and under tail coverts ferruginous ; under wing coverts dark 

 brown, edged with ashy white; mantle and back dark grey washed with 

 ' olivaceous ; wing coverts and quills margined externally with iron grey ; tail 

 ashy grey, margined with iron grey on the outer webs of the feathers. Bill 

 black; legs and feet plumbeous ; iris brown. 



Length. 5 to 5-5 inches; wing 27 to 3; tail 2' I to 2*25 ; tarsus O'8 ; 

 culmen 0*52. 



Hab. The Himalayas, and from Samarkand to Afghanistan to the mountains 

 of Southern China. Dr. Gadow's record of the British Museum specimens 

 shows the following localities. Gilgit and Cashmere, China, Nepaul, Sikkim, 

 Darjeeling and Khasia hills, to which has to be added Simla up to the 

 snowy line. 



675. Parus rubidiventer, Biyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 445 (1847); 



id., Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. Beng. p. 104; Gould, B. Asia, pi. xij Gadow, Cat. 

 B. Br. Mus. viii p. 30. Machlolophus rubidiventris, Cab. Mus. Hein.i.p.Ql. 

 Lophophanes rubidiventris (Biyth), Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 274, No. 639 ; Dav. 

 and Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 284. The RUFOUS-BELLIED CRESTED-TIT. 



Head and crest black ; a large white spot on the cheeks from the base of the 

 lower mandible ; ear coverts and sides of the neck white ; throat dull black ; 

 upper surface of the body pale rufescent grey, strongly tinged on the rump 

 with ferruginous ; wings, tail and wing coverts uniform ashy grey without any 

 spots of white ; breast, abdomen, flanks, under wing and under tail coverts 

 buff, tinged with greyish. Bill blackish ; legs plumbeous ; irides brown. 



Length. $ inches; wing 2-45 to 2-55 ; tail r8; tarsus 0-75 ; culmen 0-43. 

 Hab. The N.-W. Himalayas, Nepaul. 



Very little seems to be known of the Rufous-bellied Crested-Tit. There are 

 only five skins in the British Museum collection, and from an examination of 

 these, Dr. Gadow says : " one might suppose that this bird is the female of 

 P. rufonuchalis, but in the British Museum are specimens which were distinct- 

 ly marked as males, and show the colours above described." It does not 

 appear to have been met with by any of Mr. Hume's numerous correspondents, 

 nor is there any reference to the species in the pages of " Stray Feathers." 



