ILLUSTRATIONS OP INDIAN ORNITHOLOGY 
17. jEGITHALUS FLAMMICEPS (Burton.) 
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1835, p. 153. Dicasmn sanguinifrons, Hay , Joum. As. Soc 
B. xv. 44. 
We follow common usage, in classing this genus with the Tits, 
r i°ug i ar from being satisfied of the corrrectness of so doing.* 
inhabits the North West Himalaya in flocks, which frequent 
the higher branches of lofty trees. Mr. Hodgson does not appear 
to hare met with it in Nipal. 
i no ^* e ^ >arus 2 ivittatus, Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1840, 
P- 28, “ from Manilla or India,” is probably Indian. 
ii- — BHYNCHE A bengalensis. 
Plate LXXXIX. 
1 . 2 . 3 . 
1h e Common Painted Snipe of South-eastern Asia and its Islands, 
differs from that of Australia, in having longer toes, and the female 
by not presenting the remarkable elongation of the trachea, which 
Mr. Gould has described in the female of B. australis. There is 
the same remarkable difference, however, in the plumage of the 
sexes, the female being the larger and handsomer bird. We have 
several times met with the young, in all stages of growth, in the 
Calcutta provision bazaar, chiefly during the rainy season, and con- 
clude that they have probably two or even three broods in the year. 
The chick represented, was one of three obtained together, and the 
egg we took from the oviduct. 
The following is a sportsman’s notice of the Indian Painted Snipe, 
extracted from the Bengal Sporting Magazine for 1839 “ This 
bird is not considered a very interesting one by sportsmen, from 
the circumstance of its not being thought so dainty for the table as 
the regulation one, or at all a good mark for the gunner. 
* Figured under the name of Paroides flammiceps, in “ Contributions ” 1850, p. 148. 
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