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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Genus MACHLOLOPHUS, Cahayiis, 
124. MACHLOLOPHUS SPILONOTUS. 
THE BLACK-SPOTTED YELLOW TITMOUSE. 
Parus spilonotus, Bl. Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc. Beng. p. 103 * ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 
p. 281 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 112 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 377 ; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 105. Machlolophus subviridis (Tick.), Bl. J. A. S. B. xxiv. 
p. 267; Bl. 8r Wald. B. Burm. p. 112. 
Description. — Male and female. Summit of head and crest blacky some 
of the hinder feathers tipped with yellow ; forehead, supercilium^ lores^ 
cheeks^ ear- coverts^ sides of the neck and a large spot on the nape bright 
yellow ; a line behind the eye and a large patch on either side of the yellow 
of the nape black ; upper neck_, back and scapulars yellow^ each feather 
with a black streak on either edge of the webs ; rump and upper tail- 
coverts plain greenish yellow ; lesser wing-coverts blacky tipped with slaty ; 
median coverts black_, tipped with white on both webs; greater coverts 
black,, tipped with white on the outer web only ; primary- coverts black ; 
quills blacky the first two plain^ the next three edged with white ; the 
secondaries and the remaining primaries edged on the outer web with 
slaty ; tertiaries not edged^ but broadly tipped with white, the secondaries 
more narrowly so ; tail blacky edged with slaty, except the outer pair of 
feathers,, in which the whole outer web is ¥/hite ; all the feathers except 
the central ones tipped white ; chin^ throaty, breast and a line down the 
abdomen black ; sides of the breast bright yellow ; remainder of lower 
plumage greenish yellow ; the second to the eighth primaries with a patch 
of white near the base of the outer webs. 
Legs and feet deep plumbeous blue ; the claws similar ; gape white ; 
bill black ; irides deep brown. {Davison.) 
Length 5"5 inches, tail 2*4,, wing 3-1, tarsus '76, bill from gape '65. 
M. subviridis is, according to Mr. Hume,, only the young of the present 
species. 
The Black-spotted Yellow Titmouse was procured by Capt. Wardlaw 
Ramsay in Karennee at an elevation of 3500 feet. Mr. Davison met with 
it on Mooleyit mountain at the same elevation and upwards. 
It is found in the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal, in Sikhim and Nipal. 
Mr. Davison observed that this Tit kept about the tops of the larger 
trees, especially those about the open camping-grounds^ and that it went 
about in pairs. 
* It is usual with authors to refer the reader to the ^ Journal of the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal/ vol. xvi. p. 444, for this name. Mr. Blyth here gives the name of P. aplonotus, 
not P. spilonotus, to a Tit which is obviously the true P. xanthogenys. In his Catalogue 
(p. 103) he rectifies his mistake, and introduces P. spilonotus as a distinct species for the 
first time. 
