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is smooth, in one or two cases showing a faint gloss. In shape the 
eggs are fairly regular ovals, though less so than those of Seworhynchus. 
They measure from °86” to ‘92" in length and in breadth from °63" to 
‘68! ; the average of 11 eggs is *88" & °66”. 
(14) P. qurraticottis.—Austen’s Crow Tit. 
Oates, No. 52; Hume No. 373. 
I had a bird of this species brought to me at Laisung. It was said 
to have been killed from the same party as were two birds of the last 
species which were brought to me at the same time. 
(15) SurHora RuFIcEPSs.—The smaller Red-headed Crow Tit. 
Oates, No. 58 ; Hume, No. 377. 
Recorded by Godwin-Austen from Cachar, 
(16) S, ATRISUPERCILIARIS.—The Black-browed Crow Tit. 
Oates, No. 59. 
A distinct ring of white feathers round the eye ; the feathers of the 
lores and chin with prolonged black shafts. Maxilla fleshy, the culmen 
and base a little darker and becoming bluish close to the forehead, 
mandible pale fleshy, the gonys almost white, irides light, rather 
bright brown, legs pale, clear bluish plumbeus, claws paler still, 
length 5°85", wing 2°3", tail 3:9": bill at front -41” and from the 
gape 46", tarsus °88". The first bird of this species that I ever saw was 
one shot by one of my collectors, who, with one discharge, killed three 
of these birds (two being lost by him afterwards), and a Scworhynchus 
ruficeps. The birds were shot in rather heavy bamboo jungle, and 
were part of a flock of some 16 to 20 birds, the Suthora being in the 
majority. The bird from which the above details of description were 
taken wasa male in beautiful condition. Its stomach contained a 
mass of grasshoppers and a few small beetles. The bird was shot on 
the 11th November, 1892. 
Afterwards, during the cold weather, I obtained four more specimens ; 
all were clambering about in grass or bamboos when shot, and, strange 
to say, twice I saw them in company with Scworhynchus ruficeps, so it 
would seem that these two birds are in the habit of keeping together 
sometimes as well as are S. Se and Paradoxonis EEE 
* Since writing the above I have taken the nest and egg of this Gr ow-tit. The fotn mer is 
much like that of Sceorhynchus, but smaller, the egg, however, being totally different in 
colour, this being a uniform bright pale blue, 
