PARUS CINEREUS. 



(INDIAN GREY TITMOUSE.) 



Le Mesange grise ajoue blanche, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. p. 170, pi. 139. fig. 1 (1802). 



Parus cinereus, Vieill. Tabl. Encycl. et Method, ii. p. 506 (1820, ex Levaill.). 



Parus atriceps, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 160 (1S22). 



Parus nipalensis, Hodgson, Ind. Rev. 1838, p. 31. 



Parus schistinotus, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 



Panes ccesius, Tickell, fide Jerdon, B. of Ind. ii. p. 278 (1863). 



Bam-gangra, Beng. ; Boorung-glatelc-batoo, Clupau, Javan. 



Figures notabiles. 

 Levaillant, ut supra; Temm. PI. Col. 207. fig. 2; Gould, B. of Asia, part x. 



Ad. pilei, nucha; et colli lateribus, mento, guM et vitta pectorali usque ad abdomine producta saturate nigris : 

 nucha media, regione parotica et suboculari albis : dorso et uropygio schistaceo-cinereis : dorso 

 superiore vix viridi-sulphureo tincto : remigibus nigricantibus, in pogonio externo albido et cine 

 marginatis : tectricibus alarum majoribus conspicue albo apicatis : rectricibus centralibus schistaceo- 

 cinereis, linea nigra, media notatis, reliquis in pogonio interno nigricantibus et in pogonio extemo 

 schistaceo-cinereis, extimis pogonio externo et in pogonio interno ad apieem albis: corpore subtus 

 albo : rostro nigro : pedibus plumbeis : iride f usca. 



Adult Male (Germab, March 4th) . Crown, sides of the nape and lower neck, chin, throat, and a broad stripe 

 on the middle of tbe breast extending to the abdomen deep glossy black ; centre of the nape, cheeks, 

 and ear-coverts white ; back and rump slaty blue-grey ; the upper back faintly tinged with apple-green ; 

 quills blackish, externally margined with greyish white and blue-grey ; larger wing-coverts broadly 

 tipped with white ; median rectrices slaty blue, with a black line along the shaft, remaining rectrices 

 blackish on the inner web and slate-blue on the outer web, the outermost with the outer web and 

 terminal portion of the inner web white ; underparts, except as above stated, white : bill black ; legs 

 plumbeous; iris dark brown. Total length about 5-3 inches, culmen 0"5, wing 2"9, tail 2-5, tarsus 0'8. 



The female does not differ from the male in plumage, but the young have the upper parts tinged with 

 yellow and the underparts with buff. 



The range of the Indian Grey Titmouse is very extensive, as it is found from Transcaspia in the 

 west to China in the east, and from the Himalayas down through the Malay Peninsula to the 

 islands of the Malay Archipelago. 



It is not included in the list of Transcaspian birds by Mr. Zarudny, but it appears to me that 

 his Parus bocharensis, var. intermedins, of which I have not had an opportunity of examining a 

 specimen, will prove to be the present species, as he remarks that it inhabits the mountains 

 exclusively; and Messrs. Radde and Walter, who met with it in Transcaspia, only observed it in 



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