174 AMPBLID^. 



throat) primaries, secondaries and tertiaries as in the last, but edged 

 with rufescentj first primary short, dark brown, outermost feathers 

 rufescent on their outer webs, and for about an inch and a quarter 

 obliquely on their inner webs at the tip, rest of the feather dark brown, 

 the next dark brown, except at the tip and for a short distance (| of an 

 inch) along the shaft ; chin and throat whitish, rest of under surface 

 bright rufescent fawn; the breast with a few indistinct streaks; bill 

 dusky ; lower mandible yellowish, except at tip ; legs yellowish. 



Length. — 7-75 to 8 inches, wing 4, tail 3'5, bill at front 0'5. 



Hah. — India generally to the Himalayas, Sind, Punjab, N. W. 

 Provinces, N. Guzerat, Deccan, Beloochistan and Persia. 



Family, AMPELID^. 

 Bill moderate, broad at base, sides gradually compressed to tip; 

 wings long or moderate; tail short or moderate; toes moderate, outer 

 united to inner at base. 



Sub-Family, LEIOTRICHIN^.— Sws. 



Bill short, wide at the base, somewhat conic, acute at tip, entire Or 

 notched; tail even or slightly rounded ; tarsi short. 



Gen. Zosterops- 



Bill slightly notched, curved ; eyes with a circle of white feathers ; 

 nostrils exposed; 3rd and 4th primaries longest. 



Zosterops palpebrosUS, Tem. PI. Gol. 293, f. 3; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 

 p. 265 ; Hume, Str. F. vol. ii. 242; vol. iv. 291 ; Murray, Hdhh., Zool, 

 8fc., Sind, p. 169. — The White-eyed Tit. 



Head, nape, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts siskin 

 green, yellowish on the upper tail-coverts; chin, throat, and upper breast 

 canary yellow ; eyes with a circle of white feathers ; lower breast, 

 abdomen and flanks white with a bluish tinge; vent, under tail and 

 thigh-coverts yellow ; primaries, secondaries and tertiaries brown, 

 edged externally with the colour of the back, all margined white on 

 their inner webs, except the innermost tertiaries ; edge of wing and 

 under wing-coverts yellowish ; tail brown, the feathers margined on 

 their outer webs with greenish, and on their inner webs with whitish ; 

 bill blackish brown ; legs horny brown. 



Length. — 4'5 inches, wing 2'3j tail 1-7, bill at front 0'33 to 0'4i, 

 tarsus 0"75. 



Hah. — India generally to Assam, Arracan, Nepaul and Ceylon ; also 

 Sind, (probably Kutch) Rajputana, Deccan, Concan, Central and 

 Southern India. 



Tribe, CONmoSTRBS. 



Bill strong, conical, entii-e at the tip ; wings lengthened, or moderate, 

 mostly pointed; tail usually moderate, or short, rounded, even or 

 emarginate ; tarsi strongly scaled ; toes moderate. 



Family, CORVID^. 



Bill strong, more or less compressed ; keel arched ; nostrils at base 

 concealed by stiff bristles ; tarsi stout ; toes moderate. 



