P S A L T M A C O S C W S A , W .
P S A L T R I A C O N C I N N A , G o u l d .
Elegant Tit.
T he only specimen o f this elegant little T it I have seen is in the collection o f T. C. Eyton, Esq., author of
“ A Monograph o f the Anatidce," and many other valuable contributions to ornithological science; one o f the
few private gentlemen who has devoted much o f his time and fortune to the cultivation of this department
of human knowledge, and who has liberally supported every work of m erit pertaining to his favourite study.
The true habitat o f the Psaltria 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, nothing is a t present known;
they doubtless closely assimilate to those of its near ally, the P . erythrocephala; but here again, unhappily,
little has been recorded.
Forehead, crown and nape pale rust-colour; lores, space around the eye and the sides of the neck
b lack; chin and throat white, with a large spot o f deep black in the c en tre ; hack, wing- and tail-coverts dark
grey 5 primaries dark brown, margined externally a t the base with silvery-grey, and internally with bufly-
white ; tail greyish-brown, the outer feather margined externally and tipped with white, the two next on each
side with a lengthened oblique streak o f white on the outer side of the t ip ; breast and flanks rich rusty-
red ; centre of the abdomen wh ite; bill black; feet yellowish flesh-colour.
The figures are of the natural size.