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tip of the outer web, the remainder of the feather being grey ; tail black, 
the four outer pairs of feathers broadly edged and tipped with yellow ; the 
central two pairs merely tipped with yellow, and the inner webs maroon 
for about five sixths of their length from the base ; the outer webs partially 
maroon near the webs. 
Legs and feet dingy glaucous green ; upper mandible dark brown, the 
lower fleshy; irides deep brown. {Davison.) 
Length 6 inches, tail 3, wing 2*8, tarsus 1*05, bill from gape '75. The 
female is probably of the same size. 
This species differs from the Indian S. strigula in having more maroon 
on the central tail-feathers. In S. strigula the maroon is confined to the 
basal two thirds of the inner webs of the two central tail-feathers only ; in 
S. castaneicauda the maroon occupies the greater portion of the inner 
webs of the four central pairs, extending to the outer webs of these as well. 
I have examined Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay^s specimens which were shot 
on Nat-toung, a high mountain in Karennee, about forty miles north-east 
of Shwaygheen at an elevation of 7000 feet, and find them to be S. castanei- 
cauda. Mr. Davison obtained this bird on Mooleyit mountain, where it 
appears to have been rare. He says : — I found this only on Mooleyit, 
and rare even there. It was usually met with singly on the outskirts of 
the forest among the trees dotted about the grass-land, hunting about 
like a true Tit amongst the leaves and branches. Its food consists of 
insects/^ 
According to Mr. Hodgson^s notes, the nest and eggs of this species 
appear to be very similar to those of S. cyanuroptera. 
Genus MINLA, Hodgs, 
142. MINLA CASTANEICEPS. 
THE CHESTNUT- HEADED HILL-TIT. 
Minla castaniceps, Hodgs. Ind. Rev. 1838, p. 33 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 255. Minla 
castaneiceps, Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 393 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burnt, p. 110 ; 
Davison, S. F. v. p. 459 ; Hume ^ Dav, S. F. vi. p. 372 j Hume, S. F. viii. 
p. 104; Scully, S.F. viii. p. 320. 
Description. — Male and female. Head and nape chestnut- brown, with 
whitish shaft-streaks ; sides of neck, back, scapulars and rump fulvous- 
brown ; tail and its upper coverts greyish brown ; lores, the feathers above 
them and a broad streak over the eye to the nape white tinged with yellow j 
ear-coverts whitish, bordered above by a black line; a short, narrow 
