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the mountains, near the brooks, and in the gardens of the Kopepet-dagh. In Germab, they say, 

 it was common, and did not differ in note or habits from P. major. I am indebted to Dr. G. 

 Radde for a specimen from Transcaspia which is certainly a typical Parus cinereus. It was not 

 observed in Persia by Mr. Blanford, but Major Wardlaw-Ramsay found it common and breeding 

 in May and June in Afghanistan. Dr. Henderson (Lah. to Yark. p. 230) records it as common 

 in Kashmir, and says that he obtained several specimens in the Sind Valley in June and also in 

 October; and Col. Biddulph obtained it in Gilgit in March and June. In India, according to 

 Mr. Oates (Faun, of Brit. India, Birds, i. p. 48), it is found " throughout the whole of India, 

 alike in the hills and plains, but more commonly in the elevated and well-wooded parts. In the 

 Himalayas this Tit is found at all altitudes up to 9000 feet or more, from Hazara and Gilgit to 

 Assam. It extends through the peninsula down to Cape Comorin and into Ceylon, the only 

 portion from which it appears to be absent being Sind and Cutch. From Assam its range 

 extends down to Tenasserim, where, however, it is noted by Davison as being rare. On the 

 eastern borders of Burma Parus minor is found ; but a bird procured near Bhamo by my collector 

 was P. cinereus, and so apparently is a young bird obtained by Anderson near the same locality 

 and now in the British Museum." 



In Ceylon it is, according to Col. Legge (B. of Ceylon, p. 558), " very numerous in all the 

 hill-districts, frequenting the highest parts of the main range and other forests above 3000 feet 

 more abundantly than those of lower altitude. It is scattered over all the forest districts of the 

 low country, but is not common near the sea. I met with it in most parts of the eastern side of 

 the island and in the north-central jungles; and Mr. Parker informs me that it is common about 

 Uswewa, in the Puttalam district. In the neighbourhoods of Colombo and Galle I have found 

 it during both monsoons, but mostly in the cool season, and I believe that it is an occasional 

 visitant only to those places. In the Morowak and Kukkul Korales, and likewise in the 

 Saffragam and Pasdun Korale jungles, it is common, and probably visits the coast region from 

 these localities. I never observed it close to Trincomalie, although it is tolerably frequent 

 further inland." 



To the eastward it ranges into Southern China, where it meets with Parus minor, with 

 which species it is supposed to interbreed and to have produced an intermediate race (Parus 

 commiwtus, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1868, p. 63) ; but Mr. Oates says that he does not believe this to be 

 the case, as every specimen he has examined from Southern China was referable either to 

 P. minor or to P. cinereus. The former, he remarks, " is found as far west as Karennee and the 

 Salween district of Tenasserim in a form almost as typical as Japanese specimens, and the latter 

 in Amoy as typical as Southern-Indian birds or those from Java." 



There is a specimen of Parus cinereus in the British Museum from Fokien, in China ; and 

 Mr. De la Touche (Ibis, 1892, p. 418) met with it at Foochow, where it is, he remai'ks, much 

 less common than Parus minor. 



It is found on the Malay Peninsula. Lord Tweeddale received it from Lampong, in 

 S.E. Sumatra, and there are specimens in the British Museum from Java, Flores, and Lombock. 



In its habits the Indian Grey Titmouse is said to resemble Parus major more closely than 

 any of the other Titmice. Referring to its habits as observed by him in Ceylon, Col. Legge 

 writes as follows : — " This interesting little bird, like its European congeners, possesses a restless 



