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with white, the others and the secondaries edged with Lluish grey 

 and the latter narrowly tipped white. 



The young at first want the black margins to the feathers of the 

 back, and the throat, breast, and ventral band are greenish. 



Legs and feet deep plumbeous blue, the claws similar; gape 

 white.; bill black; iris deep brown (Hume cf- Davison). 



Length about 5-5 ; tail 2-3 ; wing 3-1 ; tarsus -8 ; bill from 

 gape -5. 



Distribution. Nepal, Sikhim, and Assam at elevations of from 

 3000 feet to 0000 ft, or more. Also the Khasi Hills, Manipur, 

 Karennee, and Muleyit Mountain in Tenasserim. 



Habits, <J-c. Mandelli found the nest at Lebong in Sikhim on the 

 15th June in a hole in a dead tree close to the ground. The nest 

 was composed of fur, fern-stems, and moss, and contained three eggs, 

 one of which only appears to have been preserved. It was white, 

 marked, spotted, and speckled with pale reddish brown and with 

 underlying spots of pale purple, and measured *78 by '55. 



42. Machlolophus xanthogenys. The Yellow -cheeked Tit. 



Parus xanthogenys, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 23; Gould, Cent. pi. 20, 

 fig. 1 ; Blyth, Cat. p. 103 (part.) ; Horsf. & M. Cat. \, p. 371 ; 

 Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii, p. 24. 



Machlolophus xanthogenys ( Viff.}, Jerd. E. I. ii, p. 279 ; Stoliczka, 

 J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 52 ; Blanf. J. A. S. B xli, pt. ii, 

 p. 167; Hume, N. fy E. p. 407 ; Brooks, S. F. iii, p. 253; Hume, 

 S. F. iii, p. 492 ; Hume, Cat. no. 647 ; ? Swinhoe fy Barnes, Ibis, 

 1885, p. 127 ; ? Barnes, Juurn. Bom. N. II. Soc. i, p. 62; ? Littledale, 

 Joiirn. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, p. 199: ? Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 249 ; 

 Oates in Hume's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. i, p. 38. 



Coloration. Lores, forehead, crown, crest, sides of the nape, a 

 bar on the side of the neck, a broad streak behind the eye, chin, 

 throat, centre of the breast, and a broad band down the middle of 

 the abdomen black, the longer feathers of the crest tipped yellow ; 

 a distinct supercilium over the eye and ear-coverts, a nape-patch, 

 the cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of the breast and of the upper abdo- 

 men bright yellow ; remainder of the lower surface olive-yellow ; 

 under tail-coverts white; back and rump olive-green; upper tail- 

 coverts slaty ; scapulars and lesser wing-coverts black, broadly edged 

 with olive-green ; the other coverts black tipped with yellow ; 

 primary-coverts dark brown; primaries white at base, and the 

 outer ones edged with white below the emargi nations; secondaries 

 edged with bluish and tipped with white ; tertiaries broadly tipped 

 with white ; tail dark brown, suffused with ashy blue on the outer 

 webs, all the feathers tipped white, and the outer web of the outer- 

 most pair entirely white. 



Bill black ; legs, feet, and claws lavender-blue ; iris very dark 

 brown (Davison). 



Length about 5-5 ; tail 2- 3 ; wing2'8; tarsus '7; bill from gape 

 55. 



Distribution. Throughout the Himalayas from Murree to Eastern 



