1840.] 



of the Peninsula of India. 



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Descr. — Above olive grey ; beneath olivaceous j'ellow ; eye-streak 

 bright yellow ; bill brown above, yellowish below ; legs greenish 

 brown. Length 5 inches ; of wing 2y%ths ; tail about 2 ; tarsus f oths. 



Sub Family PARIAN^.— Ti/^. 

 Sub Genus ZOSTEROPS, Horsf. and Tig.— White-a^je. 



128. — Z.Maderaspatensis. — Mot. Maderaspatana,'L» — S .leucGps^'YitiW, 

 Encycl. Meth. p. 441.— 5". palpeh rosOf Temm. P. C. — Indian PVhite-e!/c\ 



This pretty plumaged little bird I have hitherto found in greatest 

 abundance on the summit of the Neilgherries. Towards the more 

 northern portion of the table land, it begins to occur, though spa- 

 ringly, in the more wooded parts ; and it is of tolerably frequent occur- 

 rence among the more wooded valleys of the northern ghauts. On the 

 Neilgherries it frequents both the thick woods and gardens, and in the 

 latter may often be seen clinging to the flower stalks, extracting the 

 minute insects that infest flowers, by the pollen of which its forehead 

 is often powdered. It feeds generally in small flocks, is lively and 

 brisk in its movements, and keeps up a continual feeble twitter. Irides 

 light yellowish brown; bill blackish ; legs horn coloured. Length 

 about ^ inches ; wing 2-^^_ths ; tail ly'^g ths. 



Sub Genus PARUS.— 



129. — P. africeps, Uoi'sf.— Black-headed Tit. 



I have only seen this Indian Tit towards the south of the peninsula 

 on the Neilgherries, where it is common in the woods, associating in 

 small families, and feeding on various insects and seeds, to obtain 

 which it occasionally resorts to the gardens. I have seen it once or 

 twice only along the range of northern ghauts, but it probably is to be 

 found all along the range of western ghauts, as it is enumerated in 

 the catalogues both of Colonel Sykes and Mr. Elliot. 



130. — P. XanLhogenys.' — Yellow cheeked Tit. 



This species is also an inhabitant of the Neilgherries, but I only ob- 

 served it in the warmer parts about the edges of the hills, 1 have 



