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(Hayes Lloyd ; I have none thence) in Kattiawar, and the 

 Koochawun and Marot jungles, north of the Sambhur Lake, 

 but nowhere else, that I know of, throughout the entire region. 

 —A. 0. H.] 



646.— Parus nuchalis, Jerdon. 



The White-winged Black Tit is rare in this part of the 

 country. I have only met with a few examples near Deesa, and 

 these only in one locality viz., in low bush jungle about 10 

 miles N. E. of that station. 



[The distribution of this species is at present inexplicable. 

 Jerdon obtained it on the Eastern Ghats, west of Nellore, Dr. 

 Stewart near Bangalore, but I have as yet neither seen nor 

 heard of it from any other localities in Peninsular India, taking 

 this latter as that portion of the empire which lies southward of a 

 line drawn from Cambay to Balasore. But then up here in 

 the west it is not uncommon ; I have it from all round the 

 Sambhur Lake, Kishengurh and Ajmere, from near Pali in 

 Jodhpoor, from near Soeegam on the Runn, and from several 

 localities in Cutch. It has not yet been recorded from Sindh 

 or Kattiawar, but is, I think, certain to occur in the latter. 

 I have never obtained Eastern or Southern specimens, and it 

 seems to me not impossible that this Western form, which does 

 not agree perfectly with Jerdon's description, may prove distinct. 

 The physical conditions of the Eastern Grhats and Bangalore 

 are utterly unlike those of this western arid plains region, 

 and as yet we know nothing of its occurring in any interme- 

 diate localities. The subject is well worth the investigation of 

 field naturalists in Central and Southern India. — A. 0. H.] 



648.— Machlolophus Jerdoni, Blyth. 



The Southern Yellow Tit is common at Mount Aboo, but does 

 not, so far as I know, occur in the plains. 



[Is one of the special Aboo outliers, and occurs nowhere, 

 to the best of my belief, throughout the entire region that I am 

 dealing Avith, though it might turn up in the Grir, (Kattiawar.) 



Typical xantliogenys from the Himalayas and typical Jerdoni 

 from the Nilghiris are very distinct and easily distinguishable 

 birds, the former with a 2*75, the latter with a 3 inches wing ; 

 the former bright olive green above, and bright yellow cheeks, 

 sides of neck, and breast ; the latter with a dull greyish-green 

 back and pale greenish-yellow cheeks, &c. 



But although typical examples of both species are never 

 likely to be confounded, intermediate varieties occur, which 

 it is not easy to separate from the types of either species. In 

 Saugor, where a Yellow-cheeked Crested Tit is very common, 

 the bird is as nearly as possible of the same dimensions as the 



