ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
PAROIDES FLAMMICEPS, Burton. 
AQgithalus flammiceps, Burton in Proc, Zool. Soc. pt. iii. p. 153; Blyth in Journ. As. 
Soc. Beng, v., xvi. p. 444. — Diceum sanguinifrons, Hay in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
V., Xv. p. 44. 
Tus pretty little bird is interesting as furnishing an Asiatic 
example of the Africo-European genus, Paroides (digithalus, Vig.) 
of which only four or five species are known. Though generally 
classed with the Parine, its true affinities are as yet very uncel- 
tain. Mr. Blyth remarks, that it occurs in flocks, and frequents 
the branches of lofty trees. Mr. Hodgson does not appear to have 
met with it in Nepaul. 
Crown vivid orange red; hind head and upper parts, yellowish 
olive; wing-covers, remiges and rectrices fuscous, margined with 
yellowish-olive; chin orange red, passing into orange on the throat 
and breast, and into pale yellow on the lower parts; beak plum- 
beous, the margins pale; legs blackish. 
Total length, 5.3; beak to front, 3; to gape, 4; wing, 2.4; all 
the rectrices, 1.5; tarsus, 5. 
Habitat, India, Doon, Simla, and other north-west Himalaya? 
localities. —H, E. Strickland. 

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