NOVELTIES. 521 



1 believe that I am correct in referring the following species 

 to yfagithalus, the Penduline Tits. Strange as it may seem, 

 I have never examined a bird of this genus before ; and what 

 strikes me now is, that if I have correctly identified the genus, 

 ^Egithalus is a connecting link between Sylviparus and Cephalo- 

 pyrus. 



The bill is closest to that of the latter in shape, but is more 

 truly conic, the culm en and gonys being absolutely straight 

 lines. Laterally it is moi'e compressed than Sylviparus, and 

 dfortiori than Cephalopynts. But the nostrils are concealed as 

 in Sylviparus, and not a pert, as in the other. 



Then the w T ings are exactly intermediate between those of the 

 two other genera. 



In Sylviparus, in the fully developed wing, the first primary 

 is about 0*65 long and 0*15 wide. 



The second primary is 0-2 shorter than the third, which 

 again is perceptibly shorter than the fourth or fifth, which are 

 longest. 



In ^Egithalus, the first primary is about 05 long and 0*04 

 wide. The second primary is about 0"l shorter than the third, 

 which is equal to the fourth and longest. 



In Cephalopyrus, the first primary is so minute as to be barely 

 traceable, while the second primary is subequal with the third, 

 which is longest. 



The tarsi are shorter and stouter than Sylviparus, more like 

 those of Cephalopyrus, but I think more truly Parine than either. 

 The tail is very markedly emarginate. 



JEgithalus Stoliczkse, Sp. Nov. 



General tint greyish white ; a broad blackish band through lores, eyes, and 

 ear-coverts ; an ill-defined crescentic ferruginous band on the inter' 

 scapulary region, shading off insensibly on to the lower bach ; greater 

 secondary coverts broadly edged with deep ferruginous, in some speci- 

 mens almost maroon ; wngs and tail generally brown, conspicuously 

 and broadly margined with white or brownish while. 



; The following are the dimensions of a male and other parti- 

 culars, recorded by its discoverer, of Stoliczka's Penduline Tit. 



