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spot on the nape white, tinged with ferruginous posteriorly ; wings 

 ;uul tail bluish ashy ; under the eye, ear-coverts, and a band down 

 the neck white; back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 olive-green ; lower abdomen and sides of body ashy olive ; under 

 tail-coverts and axillaries chestnut; under wing-coverts pale fulvous. 



The young are dark brown where the adult is black and the 

 axillaries and under tail-coverts are paler rufous. 



Legs, feet, and bill black; iris brown (G. Henderson). 



Length about 5 ; tail 2*2; wing 3 ; tarsus '75 ; bill from gape -55. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Grurwhal to Grilgit, at eleva- 

 tions of from 7000 to 10,000 or 12,000 feet, occasionally in winter 

 descending to 5000 feet. 



Habits, $-c. Brooks found the nest containing newly-hatched 

 young near Derali in the valley of the Bhagirati river under a large 

 stone in the middle of May. This Tit also breeds in the pine-forests 

 of Grilgit. 



48. Lophophanes beavani. - The Sikhim Cole- Tit. 



Lophophanes beavani, Blyth, Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 275 (1863) ; Blanf. J. 



A. S. B. xli, pt. ii. p. 57 : id. S. F. viii, p. 183 ; Hume, Cat. no. 641 ; 



id. S. F. viii, p. 189. 



Parus atkinsoni, Jerd. B. 1. ii, p. 276 (1863) ; Hume, Cat. no. 643. 

 Parus beavani (Bl.), Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii, p. 29. 

 The Sikhim Cole-Tit ; the Sikhim Black Tit, Jerd. ; Lho Tasso, Lepch. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, crest, hind neck, lores, chin, throat, 

 and upper breast deep black ; ear-coverts, the sides of the neck, and 

 under the eye white tinged with fulvous ; a large nape-spot white ; 

 upper plumage and wing-coverts iron-grey ; the wings and tail 

 narrowly edged with paler grey ; lower plumage ashy olive, tinged 

 more strongly with ashy near the margin of the breast ; axillaries, 

 under wing- and tail-coverts chestnut. 



The young have the black of the adult replaced by dark brown ; 

 the upper plumage is brown and the lower tinged with fulvous. 



Iris brown ; legs leaden grey ; bill black (Blanf ord). 



Length nearly 5 ; tail 1-9; wing 2-4 to 2'8 ; tarsus '75; bill 

 from gape *5. 



Distribution. Sikhim at considerable elevations. Also Nepal, 

 where both Hodgson and Maudelli procured this species. 



49. Lophophanes dichrous. The Brown Crested Tit. 



Parus dichrous, Hodys., Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiii, p. 943 (1844) ; Blyth, 

 Cat. p. 104 j Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 372 ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii, 

 p. 33. 



Lophophanes dichrous (Hodgs.*), Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 273 ; Blanf. J. A. 

 8. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 56 ; Hume, Cat. no. 637. 



Coloration. Upper plumage brownish grey ; the wings very 

 narrowly margined with hoary grey ; forehead and sides of the 

 head pale fulvous mottled with brown ; a half-collar round the 

 hind neck, interrupted at the nape, cream-colour ; chin and throat 

 fulvous grey ; lower plumage ochraceous. 



