172 CRATEHOPODIDjE. 



colour of the back ; chin, throat, breast, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts yellow ; sides of neck, breast, and abdomen olivaceous. 



Bill dusky ; legs fleshy yellow ; iris brown (Jerdon). 



Length about 4-5; fail 1-7; wing 2-3; tarsus -8; bill from 

 gape -55. 



Distribution. Nepal and Sikhim ; the Khasi hills. 



There is nothing on record about the habits of this bird. 



182. Sittiparus castaneiceps. The Chestnut-headed Tit-Babbler. 



Minla castaniceps, Hoclys. 2nd. Rev. 1838, p. 33 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 255 ; 



Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 109. 

 Leiothrix castaniceps (Hodys.}, Blyth, Cat. p. 100 ; Horsf. fy M. Cat. 



i, p. 367. 

 Minla castaneiceps (Hodas.), Hume, N. fyE. p. 393 ; Wold, in BlytKs 



Birds Burm. p. 110 ; Damson, S. F. v, p. 459 ; Hume Dav. S. F. 



vi,p. 372; Hume, Cat. no. 619; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 320; Oates, 



B. B. i, p. 146 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 608 ; Salvador^ Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) v, p. 601 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 249. 

 Minla brunneicauda, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 609 (1883). 

 Sittiparus castaneiceps (Hodgs.), Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. i, 



p. 118. 

 The Chestnut-headed Hill-Tit, Jerd. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, and nape chestnut-brown, the 

 feathers of the forehead with broad white streaks, those of the 

 crown and nape with pale rufous streaks ; sides of the forehead, 

 lores, a broad superyilium, the ear-coverts, and a patch under the 

 eye white ; a spot in front of the eye, a broad streak behind the 

 eye and over the ear-coverts, and a narrow moustachial streak 

 black ; back, scapulars, rump, and the smaller wing-coverts olive- 

 green, tinged with fulvous ; greater wing-coverts and primary- 

 coverts black ; winglet white on the outer webs, black on the inner ; 

 the earlier primaries edged with hoary grey, the others and the 

 secondaries edged with chestnut on the base of the outer webs, with 

 olive-green on the other parts ; tertiaries broadly edged with olive- 

 green on both webs ; chin, throat, breast, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts pale fulvous white ; sides of breast and body ochraceous ; 

 under wing-coverts white. 



Upper mandible dusky ; the lower livid, yellow at base ; iris 

 crimson (in one bird dark brownish red) ; gape yellow ; feet dingy 

 greenish yellow ; claws yellowish horny (Scully). 



Length about 4-5; tail 1-6; wing 2-2; tarsus -8 ; bill from gape -55. 



I cannot separate S. brunneicauda, and I believe that Sharpe 

 himself does not now consider it distinct. 



Distribution. Nepal, Sikhim, the Khasi and Garo hills, Manipur, 

 Karennee and Muleyit mountain in Tenasseriin. 



Habits, tyc. Davison says : " This little bird was common on the 

 slopes of Muleyit from 3500 feet and upwards, usually going 

 about in flocks of twenty or more, and hunting in a systematic 

 manner' amongst the brushwood and trees, peering into every 

 crack and cranny and keeping up the whole time a low twittering." 



