ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN ORNITHOLOGY 
I — INDIAN PARI. 
Plates LXXXYII. LXXXYIII. 
India is rich in Pari , at least the pine forests of the Sub-Hima- 
layas are so, and a few species are found elsewhere, though only in 
the upland forests. The following have been described, and we 
have reason to think that others remain to be discovered in the 
Alpine Punjab and other parts. 
1. PARUS FLAYOCRlSTATUS (Lafresnaye.) 
P. sulteneus, Hodgson Ind. Rev. 1837, p. 81. Crataionyx flava and C. ater, 
Eyton Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 104. — Melanochlora flavocristata et M. suma- 
trana, Lesson, 
This is the largest and most powerful Parus known, and also one 
o t e most beautiful.* It is also remarkable among the group for 
a certain dissimilarity of the sexes, in which it resembles the Aus- 
tralian Oreoica cristata (Lewin), also referred to Parus by Mr. 
ricMand, and which at least is very closely affined to the Pari . 
It inhabits the South Eastern Himalaya, as the forests of Nipal, 
• a ” 0 t le moui J ta i n s of Assam, and thence passes southward 
° . u a ayan an( i Island of Sumatra. Specimens 
2. P. CINEREUS (Vieillot). 
P. atrioepa. Borefield— P. „ip a l ensis> Hodgmn 
gcnerally^ono^f S thp Xt0nSiTeI ^ d ‘ Stributed of the Indian Pari, and 
KecTel W,1Cre mct - J th together with other 
Central and SoLernLrffa ^cTvl ^ 1°’ T ^ Himalaya ’ Assam ’ 
tinguishable. With the nl * an . d Java ’ are utterIy undis ~ 
group as the European P major. appertains to the same 
* The most wonderful birds of the 
have been commonly classed as Shrike 8^'°^ *** the Species of Falcunculus, which 
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