The Indian Black-lored Tit inhabits wooded hills of peninsular India. It has a black face, yellow cheeks and eyebrow, yellow-green back and white-spotted wings.
The front of the head is black, with yellow cheeks and eyebrow. The back is yellow-green, the wings are white-spotted, and the underparts are yellow and black. Females and juveniles are duller with shorter crests.
It is most abundant at 500–1,800 m and forages in the canopy. It occurs in pairs or family groups and may join mixed-species flocks outside the breeding season.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.