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only difference from this genus probably consisting in the greater 

 length of the hind claw, which is in reality almost a trifling distinc- 

 tion, when compared with other generic characters. The differences 

 of Proparus from Parus are on the contrary much greater, because 

 the bill is in the latter genns mare distinctly conical and the nostrils 

 covered, while in Siva or Proparus the bill is laterally rather 

 compressed, lengthened, and the nostrils uncovered. With regard to 

 this point as well as to the coloration of the wings, the habits, &c. there 

 appears to be a marked relation of the species of Siva and Proparus 

 to those of Garrulax and Trochalopteron. I only procured at the end 

 of August 1866 two specimens of Pro. vlnlpectus at a'height of 8 000 

 feet on the Matiana hill, beyond Simla ; it appears to be very rare 'and 

 would seem chiefly to frequent in summer thick pine-forests' ' in 

 company of Siva strigula. ' 



172. Zosterops PALPuimosus, Temm., (II ^65^ is ™^ „ 



all though the vallev, as far a S an y rich ar'borl. Z^ZZ^H 

 ranges up to elevations of 12,000 feet, breeds about Ohini, but retires 

 to the plains in winter. 



173. Sylviparus mopestus, Burt. (II. 267). Male in summer 

 above olive green, brighter on the abdomen, on the upper tail-coverts 

 and on the forehead ; the feathers on the head have black quills • 

 indistinct supercilium, round the eye and the ear-coverts are pale 

 greenish yellow ; on the lores andbeneath the plumage is whitish, slight 

 ly tinged with greenish yellow, especially on the breast ; wings and tail 

 blackish, externally edged with yellowish green, which i<T brighter 

 towards the tips of the secondaries, as also on all the coverts and on the 

 front edges of the wings. Some of the last primaries and the secon- 

 daries are usually tipped white ; the tail is emarginated in the 

 middle and all the feathers are slightly mucronate. 



The female has the forehead and the plumage below pale white. 



The species is in summer common on the apricot trees about Pangi 

 and Chini, but I have not noticed it any where else in the valley. It 

 is said occasionally to remain at Kotegurh during the winter. 



The bill of Sylviparus resembles in many respects that of Carduelis, 

 and the feet are as stout as in Mnnla, the general coloration is that 

 of Zosterops ; thus the genus represents a remarkable transitional 

 type. 



