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Head, neck, and ear coverts uniform dark grey, with faint indications of 

 dusky centres to the feathers ; back, rump and upper tail coverts greyish 

 brown, the feathers centred with dusky ; lores blackish, mottled with pale 

 fulvous tips ; a faint fulvous eyebrow, not always present; feathers round the 

 eye mottled with pale fulvous tips ; cheeks dark grey ; sides of the neck sooty 

 brown ; throat white, mottled with dark spots, forming transverse streaks ; 

 scapulars externally chestnut brown ; lesser wing coverts dusky brown ; 

 median and greater coverts darker brown nearly black, tipped with white on 

 the outer web ; quills blackish brown, their outer webs chestnut, secondaries 

 the same, the innermost with white tips ; foreneck and upper breast ashy, 

 washed with chestnut on the sides ; the lower breast and abdomen paler ashy, 

 with whitish transverse bars, and a subterminal dusky one before each feather ; 

 sides of the body chestnut, the flanks edged with white and with broad mesial 

 dusky streaks ; under tail coverts rufescent broadly tipped with white ; 

 tail brownish black, edged with pale rufous and tipped with the same colour on 

 the inner web, the outermost feathers with a large white spot. Bill dusky ; 

 yellow on the lower mandible ; legs reddish brown. 

 Length. 6 to 7 inches ; wing 3-65 ; tail 2'6 ; tarsus i ; culmen O 6' 

 Hab. The Himalaya mountains. No specified locality is given of this 

 representative of the European A.alpinus. There is only a single adult $ 

 skin in the British Museum presented to it by Captain Pinwill, and the 

 locality against it is " N.-W. Himalayas/' 



Gen Acredula. Koch. 



Bill extremely short and stout ; culmen strongly curved ; nostrils com- 

 pletely hidden by short recumbent feathers ; first primary well developed, but 

 shorter than half the length of the next ; tip of wing formed by the 4th, 5th 

 and 6th primaries ; tail generally much longer than the wing and much 

 graduated ; the scales covering the tarsus inclined to fuse into one long 

 scutum. No crest. Plumage very soft and of light colours. (Gadoiv.) 



687. Acredula ery throe epliala (Vigors), Gadow, Cat. B. Br. 



Mus. viii. p. 56. Parus erythrocephalus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 23,- 

 Gould, Cent. B. Him. Mts., pi. xxx. fig. I ; id., B. Asia, pt. 7, p. 1 1 ; JB rooks, 

 Sir. F. 1879, p. 487. Orites erythrocephalus, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 

 p. 104. ^Egithaliscus erythrocephalus, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 90 (1850); 

 Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 270, No. 634 ; Blyth and Walden, B. Burm. p. 1 12 ; 

 Brooks, Sir. F. 1875, P* 2 5 2 5 Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 127. The RED- 



HEADEH TlT^VIoUSE. 



Forehead, crown and nape chestnut, a short but broad supercilium white ; 

 lores, ear coverts, feathers round the eye and throat black ; chin and a line 

 separating the black of the throat from that of the sides of the head white ; upper 

 surface of the body, including the wing coverts, ashy blue, tinged with russet 





