•56 W. T. Blanford — Zoology of Sikicim. [No. 1, 
difference in structure between the two genera. The habits are remarkably 
similar, TToreites brunneifrons resembling Troglodytes in its movements 
even more than Tenia does. I watched a bird of the present species for at least a 
quarter of an hour one day, hunting over mossy rocks and diving into the 
hollows beneath them. If Tesia be a wren, 1 suspect Horeites must be 
classed with it. The note is precisely similar. 
I shot IT. brunneifrons twice in the Lachung valley between 10,000 and 
12,000 feet. Both specimens were moulting their tails, so that I could not 
take complete measurements. The wing measures T85, tarsus 075, bill from 
forehead 0‘32, from gape O' 5 inch. The iris is brown, legs pale horny, bill 
blackish above, yellow near the base of the lower mandible. 
Sittides. 
218 Sitta Himalayensis, J. and S. — A single specimen, shot at 
about 11,000 feet on the Chola range, differs from Darjiling birds in the paler 
colour of the head, in a distinct pale spot at the back of the neck, and in the 
bill being rather shorter. The latter character, however, is slightly variable 
in most Sittw, and the pale head may be due to immaturity. Length, 
measured before skinning, 175, ins., wing 2 0, tail 1-15, tarsus 075, foot 1 "5, 
bill from forehead 0'5. The two outer roctrices on each side have a distinct 
white spot near their tips much larger, farther from the tip and extending 
obliquely across the feather in the outer pair smaller, and often confined to 
the inner web close to the tip in the next. 
In Northern Sikkim I observed no Sitta above about 7,000 feet. 
CertMadm. 
244 Certhia nipalensis, Hodgs— Common from 8,000 to 13,000 feet 
in the pine woods of Northern Sikkim, in which at the time of my visit I 
found it associating with flocks of Lophophanes and Pliylloscopi. It 
appears in this region entirely to replace C. discolor of Outer Sikkim. 
Measurement of a fresh specimen : Length 5'5, wing 2'8, tail 2'8, bill from 
forehead 0'5, tarsus 07, foot 15 inch. Iris brown, legs horny, bill blackish 
above, white below. 
Paridce. 
637 Lophophanes dichrous (Hodgs.).— I at first thought that this 
must be a new species, as it agrees very poorly with both Hodgson's 
original description and Gould’s figure in the Birds of Asia. In neither is 
any notice taken of the conspicuous whitish half collar. I find, however, 
that Dr. Stoliczka has received specimens from the Western Himalayas 
closely resembling Sikkim birds, and he tells me that on examining Mr. 
Hodgson s type specimen he found traces of the collar. I give a fresh 
description of this tit. 
