272 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



I did not procure this bird at Darjeeling, but it has been found 

 both in Nepal and Bootan. 



636. JEgithaKscus niveogularis, Gould. 



Orites, apud Gould, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 140 — Gould, 

 Birds of Asia, pt. 7, pi. 14. 



The White-throated Tit. 



Descr. — ' Forehead white, passing to buff-brown on the back of 

 the head, nape, and fore-part of the back, and thence to the tail 

 grey, tinged with isabelline on the rump ; lores, over the eyes and 

 ear-coverts, black, passing into brown on the nape ; ear-coverts 

 blackish anteriorly, brownish-buff posteriorly, and somewhat 

 striped longitudinally with white ; base of lower mandible, chin, 

 throat, forepart of breast, and sides of the neck, to the nape be- 

 hind the ear-coverts, snowy-white, contrasting with the brownish 

 band which runs from the nape across the middle of the breast ; 

 the lower part of the breast with the abdomen pale pinky-isabel- 

 line, passing to white in the middle of the belly ; wings brown, 

 margined with greyish-white ; coverts and scapulars blackish ; tail 

 dusky-black, margined externally with greyish-white ; its outermost 

 feathers white on the outer web. 



Bill black, longish, and slender as in A. iouschistos, Hodgson ; feet 

 yellowish. Length 4^ inches ; of wing 2^ ; tail 2f, its outer- 

 most feather h inch shorter ; bill to frontal plumes -f^ to T 5 y ; 

 tarse ^ of an inch. 



Hab. N. India. In the collection of John Gould, Esq.' 



A species nearly allied to the three last Tits has been lately 

 described from Affghanistan, Orites leacogenys, Moore, Horsf., 

 Cat. 607 ; which may occur in our extreme North-western limit ; 

 and Gould has 0. glanco-gularis, from China. 



Moore remarks that niveo-gularis, with iouschistos, form one 

 and ^roup ; and erythrocephalus, with the species from 

 Afghanistan mentioned above, form another. To these Mr. Gould, 

 in his Birds of Asia, has respectively applied the names 

 Acaiithiparus, and Psaltria, but he has placed 0. glaucogularis under 

 Mecistura. 



