AVES. 65 



Family PAEID^. 



Genus PARUS. 



126. Pahtjs ateiceps. 



Parus bokharensis, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. m (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 92. 



Parus cinereus, V. ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 230 (1873) ; Wardlaw Eamsay, Ibis, 1880, 



p. 62; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 110; Sbarpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. part 3, p. 7Q (1889). 

 Parus nipalensis, Hodgs. ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 73; Scully, t. c. p. 568; Barnes, Str. F. ix. p. 217 (1880). 

 Parus atriceps, Horsf. ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 46 (1889). 



No. 37, 6 ad. Murree, June 25, 1873. 



No. 115, ad. Murree, July 13, 1873. 



No. 232, imm. Srinagar, July 31, 1873. 



No. 468, adult. Tashkyum, August 20, 1873.— Bill horny black ; feet bluish ; iris blackish. 



Length 6*0 inches, wing 2-9, tail 2*5, tarsus 0*75. 

 No. 474, imm. Shargol, August 20, 1873. 



Common in Kashmir according to Dr. Henderson, who obtained several specimens in the 

 Sind Valley both in June and October. 



127. Parus cyanus. 



Parus cyanus, Pall. ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 232 (1873) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. m 

 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 93; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 154 (1876). 



No. 583. South of Sanju Pass, Karakash Valley, October 22, 1873.— Length 5-2 inches, 



wing 2*75, tail 2-45. Bill horny blackish ; feet pale bluish. 

 No. 574. Tarn, October 25, 1873.—" Kok-talke " (Kokan). 

 No. 957. Bora, November 4, 1873. 

 No. 1043. Tarkand, November 23, 1873. 

 No. 1150. Kashghar, December 15, 1873. 

 Nos. 1858, 1859. Duba, June 6, 1874. 

 No. 1659. Pasrobat, May 13, 1874. 



In his ' Diary ' Dr. Stoliczka says that P. cyanus was evidently breeding near Pasrobat, and 

 of two females shot near Duba, '' one had well-developed eggs, but had not begun laying ; 

 the other had small eggs." On the 5th of June, writing from the camp about two miles west 

 of Mazar Khoja, he says that the species was breeding in the Duba Valley. 



Dr. Henderson writes : — " This beautiful little species was common in August in the 

 tamarisk-jungles on the banks of the Arpalak, within fifteen miles of the plains of Yarkand. 

 It had apparently been recently breeding, as all the specimens obtained were young birds, 

 one of them being scarcely fully fledged." Dr. Scully also observes :— " This pretty little 

 species was met with in small flocks among the tamarisk-bushes which grow on the banks 

 of the Arpalak and Sanju streams. It had evidently been breeding in those places." 



Colonel Biddulph sends us the following note .--" We met this first in November 

 between Sanju and Yarkand in small scrub jungle, and everywhere in similar localities 

 throughout the winter all over the plains of Turkestan. They were especially common at 



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