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The bill is black, legs almost quite black, sometimes with a dull 
brown tinge. ‘The irides are crimson or crimson-brown. 
Sub-Family Parine. 
(8) Parus atriceps.—The Indian Grey Tit. 
Oates, No. 31; Hume, No, 645. 
Very rare here. 
(9) P. monticoLa.—The Green-backed Tit. 
Oates, No. 34; Alume, No. 644. 
I obtained a single specimen of this bird at Guilong—about 4,000 
feet elevation—in 1888. 
(10) ANGITHALISCUS MANIPURENSIS.—Hume’s Red-headed Tit. 
Oates, No. 36. 
Not very rare towards the eastern part of the district. Those ob- 
served by me were all feeding on high trees keeping in small parties 
and uttering a constant, rather loud, chirp. 
(11) Syivrearus mopEestus.—The Yellow-browed Tit. 
Oates, No. 40 ; Hume, No. 682. 
Recorded by Godwin-Austen from the Barail range. I have never 
met with this bird. 
(12) MacHLoLopHus sprtonotus.—The Black-spotted Yellow Tit. 
Oates, No. 41 ; Hume, No. 649. 
I fee only seen this bird in the scattered oak forests towards the 
north-west of North Cachar, and even there it is by no means common. 
Sub-Family Paradoxornithine. 
(13) PARADOXORNIS FLAVIROSTRIS.—The Yellow-billed Crow Tit. 
Oates, No. 51; Hume, No. 378. 
The female differs from the male in having the chin and throat 
suffused with earthy-brown. 
This bird is not uncommon ata good many places about 3,000 ft., 
generally keeping to the valleys, where there is lots of sun grass or ekra 
jungle. It frequents, however, almost any sort of jungle other than 
deep forest. I have most often met with it in mixed grass and bamboos. 
Throughout the cold weather it is found in flocks, sometimes number- 
ing as many as a dozen individuals, but more often only about 7 or 8. 
It isa very shy bird and very chary of taking to flight, but is a great 
