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GENUS, Machlolophus, Calanis. 



Head crested ; plumage much mixed with yellow and green. 



Machlolophus xanthogenys, Vigors. 



647. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 279 ; Swinhoe and 

 Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 125, p. 127. 



THE YELLOW-CHEEKED TIT. 



Length, 5 '2 5 ; wing, 275; tail, 212; tarsus, 0'6 ; bill at 

 front, 0'33. 



Bill black ; irides light-brown ; legs plumbeous. 



Head (fully crested), wings and tail black, the latter tipped 

 white, and the tertiaries laterally edged throughout with white ; 

 nape, posterior part of crest, and a small superciliary stripe, 

 bright yellow ; back, scapulars, and rump, light olive-green, the 

 scapulars with a few black marks ; wing-coverts tipped with 

 pale-yellow ; the outer primaries white-edged, and with a white 

 bar near their base, the others bluish externally ; tail dusky -grey, 

 white tipped ; cheeks, sides of neck, sides of breast and abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts yellow, passing to greenish on the flanks 

 and under tail-coverts ; lores, a stripe on each side of the neck 

 from the eye, chin, throat, and middle of breast, black. 



The Yellow-cheeked Tit occurs on the slopes of the Vindhian 

 hills, near Mhow, and in the woods at their base. It has not 

 been recorded from elsewhere within our limits. 



Machlolophus aplonotus, Bly. 



648. M. jerdoni, Bly th. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, 



p. 280 ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 492 j 



Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 413. 



THE SOUTHEKN YELLOW TIT. 



Length, 6 ; expanse, 10 ; wing, 3 ; tail, 2'5 ; tarsus, 07 ; bill at 

 front, 0'35. 



Bill black ; irides light-brown ; legs plumbeous. 



Very similar to the last, but conspicuously larger ; has the 

 back less tinged with yellow, being dull green with a slaty tinge ; 

 the yellow portion of the plumage not so intense in hue, and 

 the yellow sincipital streak short, and not continued forward 

 over the eye. 



This Tit is a permanent resident on the Sahyadri Range, and in 

 the well wooded tracts adjoining; it also occurs on Mount Aboo ; 

 it is unknown in Sind. 



Jerdon states that he found it common on the Vindhian 

 Range, near Mhow, but a bird that I procured from thence 

 proved to belong to the preceding species. 



TRIBE, Conirostres. 



Bill usually entire at the tip, thick, more or less conic, with 

 the lower mandible deeper than in most of the preceding tribe ; 



