ORB. I^SJESSORES. 



FAM. PARING. 



GEN. PAR US. 



PLATE XLVI. 



PARUS NUCHALIS. 



WHITE NAPED TITMOUSE. 



I OBTAINED this unexpected addition to the fauna of Southern India from 

 the Jungles of the Eastern Ghats, and the Shikarees who brought it to me stated that 

 it inhabits the highest portion of the hills in thick forest, and lives in pairs. They 

 said it was very rare, and I have not succeeded in obtaining any other specimens 

 beyond the pair first procured. 



Description. — Above, and a broad mesial stripe from throat to vent, black; 

 cheeks, sides of neck, of breast, and of belly, under-tail coverts, spot on nape and 

 band across wing, white; tertials broadly margined externally and tipped with white; 

 outermost tail-feather white, except its inner border, the next with the outer web and 

 portion of inner web white, and the third with the outer web white at tip and for 

 most of its basal half. Bill black. Legs plumbeous. 



Length 5 inches — wing 2f ths — tail 2 — tarsus fths — bill 5 inch nearly to gape. 



The other Pari of Southern India are P. cinereus, V,, P. atriceps, T., abundant 

 on the Neelgherries; and P. aplonotus, Blyth, P. xanthogenys, apud Sykes and Jerdon — 

 only lately discriminated from the allied P. aianthogenys of the Himalayas. This is 

 abundant in Coorg, on the slopes of the Neelgherries, and indeed all along the range 

 of the Western Ghats. P. melanolophus I have only seen in Goomsoor. 



