THE CHESTNUT-HEADED HILL-TIT. 
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moustachial streak bordering the ear-coverts also black ; chin^ throaty 
breast and abdomen white tinged with fulvous ; sides o£ breast^ flanks and 
thighs ochraceous; wings dark brown, the second and third primaries 
edged with whitish on the outer webs near the bases, the others edged on 
the outer web with ferruginous, the secondaries and tertiaries edged with 
olive-brown ; lesser and median coverts olive-brown, the greater coverts 
black. 
The young are much the same colour as the adult, but the head-streaks 
are less distinct and the upper plumage more fulvous. 
Upper mandible dusky ; the lower livid, yellow at base ; irides crim- 
son j gape yellow ; feet dingy greenish yellow ; claws yellowish horny. 
Length 4'3 inches, tail 1*8, wing 2 '3, tarsus '8, bill from gape '55. The 
female is of the same size. 
Other species of this genus are M. ignotincta from the Himalayas, with 
a black head and crimson margins to the wings and tail. M. cinerea from 
the same locality is greyish green, with two broad black coronal streaks 
and a yellow supercilium. M. rufogularis is allied to this last and is also 
from Sikhim. 
The Chestnut-headed Hill-Tit was obtained in Karennee by Captain 
Wardlaw Ramsay at an elevation of 5200 feet. Mr. Davison found it on 
the higher slopes of Mooleyit mountain in Tenasserim. 
It has been found in Munipore and the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal, 
and it extends along the Himalayas up to Nipal. 
Mr. Davison says : — " This little bird was common on the slopes of 
Mooleyit from 3500 feet and upwards, usually going about in flocks of 
twenty or more, and hunting in a systematic manner amongst the brush- 
wood and trees, generally commencing low down and gradually working 
upwards, clinging to the stems and trunks and peering into every crack 
and cranny, keeping up the whole time a low twittering.'''' 
According to Mr. Hodgson, the nest is a cup made of twigs, moss and 
grass, and it is placed in a thick bush. The eggs are four in number, 
greenish yellow speckled with red. 
Mr. Davison found two nests of this species on Mooleyit mountain in 
February. In both cases the nests were constructed of green moss lined 
with fibres and dry leaves, and were cup-shaped. One nest was placed in 
a mass of creepers about five feet from the ground, and the other in the 
moss growing on the trunk of a large tree. The eggs were white minutely 
spotted with black, and three in number in each instance. 
