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Orebe had been met with in India until lately, only at Karachi, and thence 

 westward along the Mekran Coast." 



I have just heard from Mr. Finn that he obtained a specimen alive in the 

 Calcutta bazar, so P. uigricollis may occur in winter throughout Northern India. 



0. H. WHITEHEAD. 

 Kohat, 30th December 1905. 



No. XXIV— OCCURRENCE OF jEGITHALISCUS CORONATUS, 

 SEVERTZ, IN SIND. 



I found this pretty little tit in the dense, well-watered Tamarix-Acacia 

 jungles of Andaldal in the Sukkur District, close to the Ruk Junction on the 

 North- Western Railway, in the month of February 1904. I saw several lots of 

 them. They go about in small parties, uttering a low, short " tweet " after 

 the manner of tits while hunting for insects amongst the leaves of the tama- 

 risks, hanging and clinging to which they seemed as much at home as an ordi- 

 nary bird does on twigs and branches. I shot two of the birds. They we-re 4 

 inches in length, with a wing of 2 inches, and a tail of 1, 6 inches. They were 

 evidently in somewhat immature plumage, with brown-grey upper parts and a 

 broad black forehead, the black passing broadly through the eyes and meeting 

 narrowly on the nape. The black was sprinkled with white ; the cheeks and 

 throat were white ; the back strongly isabelline on the upper portion, fading 

 into very light isabelline on the rump ; upper tail coverts dark brown 

 broadly edged with hoary ; primaries and rectrices black-brown, broadly edged 

 hoary, somewhat narrower on the outer web than on the inner ; the edging on 

 the middle pair of rectrices and on the secondaries broadest ; lesser wing 

 coverts the same colour as upper back ; the greater wing coverts dark brown, 

 edged very broadly with dark isabelline ; under wing coverts, axillaries, breast 

 and under parts white, tinged strongly isabelline on the middle breast. Legs 

 and feet dark slate ; bill dark horny except edges which were nearly white, and 

 the base of the lower mandible which was light slate cioured. The forehead 

 in both specimens was pure white immediately behind the black band, and in 

 one specimen merged into the grey of the occiput which itself became sullied 

 with black on the nape (all the head feathers, except those of the chin, had 

 black bases ) where there was no distinct black band, the hind neck being 

 brownish-grey ; in the other specimen the nape was nearly pure black, followed 

 by a broad white collar, just tinged with grey in the centre of the hind neck, 

 this collar being continued from the white cheeks and breast. In the first 

 specimen even the forehead and ear covers showed some white edging to the 

 feathers. Neither of the specimens could be sexed as they were both damaged. 

 The food consisted of small moth larvse and small insects. 



Both the specimens were sent home to the British Museum, where oue was 

 kept, while the other is at present in the possession of Mr. J. Davidson of 

 Edinburgh, formerly a member of the Civil Service of the Bombay Presidency 

 and a well-known ornithologist. 



