54 CORVID^E. 



Length about 4 ; tail 1*4 ; wing 2-4 ; tarsus *6 ; bill from gape *4. 



Distribution. Throughout the Himalayas from Kashmir to 

 Bhutan. Stoliczka observed this Tit about Panji and Chini in the 

 Sutlej Valley in summer, and subsequently at Leh on the Indus in 

 Kashmir. Marshall notes it from Chamba. Scully states that it 

 is common on the hills round the valley of Nepal at 6000 to 8000 

 feet. It is found in Sikhim and also in Bhutan. Crossing the 

 Bramaputra River we find it recorded by Godwin-Austen from the 

 Eastern Barail range just under the peaks of Japvo and Khunho. 



Jerdon states that this bird extends to the plains and that he 

 procured it at Ajanta at the edge of the hills south of Khandesh. 

 I have not been able to find any other locality in the plains from 

 which it has been obtained. 



Genus MACHLOLOPHUS, Cab., 1850. 



Similar to Parus, but with a long pointed crest ; a broad ventral 

 band. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Forehead bright yellow M. spilonotus, p. 54. 



b. Forehead black. 



a'. Of smaller size ; tips of wing-coverts 



yellow M. xanthoyenys, p. 55. 



b'. Of larger size ; tips of wing-coverts white. M. haplonotut, p. 56. 



41. Machlolophus spilonotus. The Blade -spotted Yellow Tit. 



Parus spilonotus, Blyth, Cat. p. 103 (1849) ; Horsf. fy M. Cat. i, 



p. 371 ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii, p. 26. 

 Machlolophus spilonotus (Bl.\ Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 281 ; Wald. in Bl. 



Birds Burm. p. 112 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 377; Hume, Cat. 



no. 649 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 128 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 255 ; Gates in 



Hume's N. 8, E. 2nd ed. i, p. 37. 

 Parus subviridis, Tick., Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv, p. 267 (1855) ; Blyth 



$ Wald. Birds Burm. p. 112. 



Muchetirik-pho, Lepch. 



Coloration. Forehead, lores, a broad supercilium, a nape-patch, 

 sides of the head and neck bright yellow ; crown, crest, a streak 

 behind the eye, a patch on either side the nape, chin, throat, and a 

 broad mesial baud down to the vent black ; the longer feathers of 

 the crest tipped with yellow ; sides of the breast yellow ; remainder 

 of the lower plumage olive-yellow, purer next the black band; 

 under tail-coverts mingled grey and white ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries yellowish white ; back and scapulars yellow, each 

 feather laterally margined with black ; rump yellowish green ; 

 upper tail-coverts deep bluish grey ; tail black, broadly edged with 

 bluish grey and tipped white, the outer web of the outermost 

 feather entirely white ; lesser wing-coverts black, tipped with 

 bluish grey ; median and greater coverts and tertiaries black with 

 broad white tips ; primaries white at base, the outer ones edged 



