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long, and the other resembles the Salween specimen. All three 

 can be nearly matched by Japanese birds. 



The tail of P. minor varies a good deal in length, but the average 

 length of the tail of ten Japanese birds is exactly the same as that 

 of ten Indian specimens of P. atriceps selected at random. 



Distribution. Karennee and the (Salween district of Tenasserim, 

 extending through China to Japan. 



33. Parus nuchalis. The White-winged Black Tit. 



Parus nuchalis, Jerd. Madr. Journ. L. S. xiii, p. 131 (1844) ; id. HI. 

 2nd. Orn. pi. 46 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 279 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xli, 

 pt. ii, p. 245 ; Adam, S. F. i, p. 385 ; Butler fy Hume, S. F. iii, 

 p. 492 ; Butler, S. F. v, p. 221 ; Hume, Cat. no. 646 ; Gadow, Cat. 

 B. M. viii, p. 88 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 248. 

 Nalla patsa jitta, Tel. 



Coloration. The whole upper plumage, wing-coverts, lores, sides 

 of the crown, chin, throat, centre of breast, and a broad ventral 

 band black ; a large nape-patch, the cheeks, ear-coverts, and those 

 parts of the lower plumage not already mentioned white ; the 

 under tail-coverts streaked with black; quills with the outer webs 

 white at base and a partial narrow edging of white elsewhere ; 

 the later secondaries broadly edged with white, and the last tertiary 

 or two entirely white ; the two outer tail-feathers white, the next 

 with the outer web white, the inner web black with a white tip, the 

 other feathers black with white tips. The amount of white on the 

 tail is liable to variation. 



Iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs and feet slaty-plumbeous 

 (Butler}. 



Length about 5-5 ; tai!2'l; wing 2*6; tarsus *7; bill from gape 45. 



Distribution. From the country round the Sambhar Lake through 

 Ajmere to Deesa and on to Cutch. Jerdon, however, procured it 

 in quite another part of India, namely the Eastern Ghats w r est of 

 .Nellore, and he states that Dr. Stewart obtained it near Bangalore. 

 I have not been able to examine any specimen from these southern 

 localities. The southern birds may probably, as Hume opines, 

 prove to be distinct from the northern. As at present known the 

 distribution of this bird is most extraordinary. A specimen in the 

 British Museum is marked Bhutan ! 



34. Parus monticola. The Green-backed Tit. 



Parus monticolus, Viy. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 22 ; Goidd, Cent. pi. 29, fig. 2 ; 

 Blyth, Cat. p. 103 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 369 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 277 ; 

 Hume 8f Henders. Lah.^to Yark. p. 229; Hume, N. $ E. p. 404; 

 id. Cat. no. 644 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 323 ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii, 

 p. 20 ; Hume, IS. F. xi, p. 254 ; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. 

 i, p. 35. 



Sarak-chak-pho, Lepch. 



Coloration. Cheeks and ear-coverts white ; the whole head, nape, 

 breast, and a broad band down the middle of the abdomen black ; 

 a whitish patch on the nape ; back and scapulars greenish yellow ; 



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