THE RED-HEADED TITMOUSE. 
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gardens and orchards. The few I had the opportunity of observing had 
all the habits of the English Tits. They are resident birds and probably 
breed from March to June. In India they place their nests in holes of 
trees or walls. They lay from four to six eggs^ which are white speckled 
with red. 
Genus ^GITHALISCUS, Cahanis. 
123. iEGITHALISCUS ERYTHEOCEPHALUS. 
THE RED-HEADED TITMOUSE. 
Parus erythrocephalus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 23, .ffigithaliscus erythro- 
cephalus, Jert?. B. Ind. ii. p. 270; Hume, Nests and Eggs, ^. ^01] Wald. in 
Bl B. Burm, p. 112 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 105 ; Scully, S. F. viii. p. 322. 
Description. — Male and female. Head from forehead to nape chestnut ; 
a short but broad supercilium white ; lores^ the ear-coverts, feathers round 
the eye and throat black ; chin and a line separating the black o£ the 
throat from that of the sides of the head white ; upper plumage and wing- 
coverts ashy blue, tinged with russet on the rump ; wings brown, tinged 
with ashy on the outer webs ; outer tail-feathers brown, the terminal two- 
thirds of the outer web and the tip of the inner white ; the next two pairs 
brown, with large triangular white tips ; the three central pairs ashy 
brown, lighter on the outer webs. 
Bill black; gape fleshy; irides pale yellow or yellowish creamy; feet 
buffy yellow ; claws livid. [Scully.) 
Length 4*2 inches, tail 2 "3, wing 2, tarsus '62, bill from gape *35. 
The Red-headed Titmouse was obtained by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay in 
Karennee at 3000 feet elevation. It has not been recorded from any 
other part of Burmah. 
It is found in the Himalayas from Bhootan to the North-west Pro- 
vinces. Col. Godwin- Austen obtained it in the Naga hills. 
According to Dr. Jerdon this Titmouse associates in small flocks, 
frequenting shrubs, hedges and high trees, and lives chiefly on insects. 
It makes a large globular nest of moss and feathers, which is generally 
placed in a bush, and it lays as many as eight eggs, which are whitish, with 
a zone of reddish spots round the large end. 
