PSALTRIA CONCINNA, Goud.

Elegant 'Tit.

 

Tue only specimen of this elegant little Tit I have seen is in the collection of T. C. Eyton, Esq., author of
«<A Monograph of the dnatide,” and many other valuable contributions to ornithological science ; one of the
few private gentlemen who has devoted much of his time and fortune to the cultivation of this department
of human knowledge, and who has liberally supported every work of merit pertaining to his favourite study.
The true habitat of the Psa/tria concinna is China, and the specimen referred to was killed at Chusan : it is
most nearly allied to the P. erythrocephala, but differs from that bird in its smaller size, in the paler colour
of the crown, in the absence of the post-superciliary stripe, in the black of the throat being entirely surrounded
with white, and in the richer rusty-red of the flanks.

Of the habits, manners and economy of this pretty species, I regret to say,
milate to those of its near ally, the P. erythrocephala; but here again, unhappily,

nothing is at present known ;

they doubtless closely assi
little has been recorded.
Forehead, crown and nape pale rust-colour ;
black ; chin and throat white, with a large spot of de
argined externally at the base with silvery-grey, and internally with buffy-
rgined externally and tipped with white, the two next on each
side of the tip; breast and flanks rich rusty-

lores, space around the eye and the sides of the neck
ep black in the centre ; back, wing- and tail-coverts dark

orey 5 primaries dark brown, m
white ; tail greyish-brown, the outer feather ma
engthened oblique streak of white on the outer

side with a |
en white; bill black; feet yellowish flesh-colour.

red; centre of the abdom
The figures are of the natural size.