482 BIRDS FBOM KASHMIR— RICHMOND. vol. xviii. 



101. PHOENICURUS ERYTHRONOTUS (Eversmann). 



Female, adult, Sbigar, Baltistan, January 16, 1892; 8,000 feet. "Bill 

 and feet black; length, 6^ iuclies." 



102. PHOENICURUS RUFIVENTRIS (Vieillot). 



Male, adult, Zogi-bul Pass, Kashmir, June 20, 1893; 11,000 feet. 

 "Bill aiid feet black; length, Sf inches." 



Male, adult, Zogi-bnl Pass, Kashmir, June 20, 1893 ; 11,000 feet. " Bill 

 and feet black; irides brown; length, 5^- inches." 



Male, adult, Zogi-bul Pass, Kashuiir, June 20, 1893; 11,000 feet. 

 "Bill and feet black; irides bro\Tn; length, G^ inches." 



Male, immature, Zogi-bul Pass, Kashmir, June 20, 1893; 11,000 feet. 

 <'Bill and feet black; length, 5;; inches." 



Male, immature, Dras, Kashmir, June 23, 1893; 10,000 feet. "Bill 

 and feet black." 



Male, young, Khardong, Ladak, July 15, 1893; 13,000 feet. " Upper 

 mandible horn black ; lower mandible horn brown ; feet brownish black ; 

 length, 53 inches." 



The immature males, which are in the garb of the female, have a few 

 russet feathers on the lower breast; they are in rather worn plumage. 

 The young bird is m the nestling plumage, and is described below : 



Forehead, crown, nape, back, scapulars, sides of neck, throat and 

 breast hair brown, with indistinct darker edges to the individual 

 feathers, and somewhat lighter buffy centers to those of the throat and 

 breast; ear-coverts and center of back of a slightly darker shade and 

 tinged with pale Prout's brown; abdomen and flanks butf, the feathers 

 with faint dusky edges on sides of abdomen; thighs and under tail- 

 coverts uniform deep brownish buff; under wing-coverts buff; upper 

 tail-coverts tawny ochraceous (as in the adult), some of the feathers 

 with indistinct dusky tips; tail deep russet, inclining to chestnut 

 (similar to adult male in fresh iall plumage), with the center pair of 

 feathers blackish for their terminal two-thirds, and the narrow outer 

 web largely deep rnsset, similar to the others; lesser and middle wing- 

 coverts dusky blackish, the feathers broadly edged with Isabella color; 

 greater coverts dusky blackish, with outer webs and tips edged with 

 pale russet; wing feathers dusky blackish, the outer webs of prima- 

 ries, primary coverts, and secondaries narrowly edged with pale Isabella 

 'color; tertiaries more broadly edged and tipped with pale russet, like 

 the greater wing-coverts. 



103. PHOENICURUS ERYTHROGASTER (Guldenstadt). 



Male, adult, Skardu, Baltistan, November 20, 1891; 7,000 feet. "Bill 

 and feet black; irides brown; length, G^- inches." 



Male, adult, Skardu, Baltistan, November 20, 1891; 7,000 feet. "Bill 

 and feet black." 



