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Female, adult, Braldu Yalley, Baltistan, December 23, 1891. 



Male, adult, Braldu Valley, Baltistan, December 29, 1891 5 9,000 feet. 

 "Bill aud feet black; irides dark brown; gape yellow; length, 7 inches." 



Male, adult, Braldu Valley, Baltistan, January 2, 1892; 9,000 feet. 

 " r>ill aud feet black; irides dark brown; length, 7 iuclies." 



Female, adult, Sliigar Valley, Baltistan, IS^'ovember 24, 1891; 8,000 

 feet. 



Young, Sasser Pass, Ladak, July 22, 1893 ; 16,000 feet. '< Feet black ; 

 length, 5J inches." 



The young bird from Sasser Pass is doubtless a male, as it has the 

 white wing i)atch well developed. It differs from the adult male in 

 winter plumage chiefly as follows: Upper parts dull grayish brown, 

 lighter and with a buffy tiuge* on nape aud rump, the feathers with 

 dusky tips; upper tail-coverts pale russet; throat and breast grayish 

 buff, lighter on ear-coverts and sides of neck, all the feathers with 

 dusky tips; lower breast buff"; the feathers with dusky tips; abdomen, 

 under tail-coverts, flanks aud thighs, uniform butt". Tail and wings 

 similar to the adult nuile in ^vinter plumage, but lesser wiug-coverts 

 aud some of the feathers of the middle coverts are strongly tipped 

 with buff". The white i)atch on the wing is not included on the prima- 

 ries in this stage, from the fact that these feathers are only partly 

 grown out. 



lOi. RHYACORNIS FULIGINOSA (Vigors). 



Female, young, eastern Kashmir, August 18, 1891; 0,000 feet. 



Male, adult, central Kashmir, September 20, 1891 ; 9,000 feet. 



Male, adult, central Kashmir, September 20, 1801; 9,000 feet. 



Male, adult, :Kowboog Valley, eastern Kashmir, May 30, 1892; (>,500 

 feet. '' Bill aud feet black; length, 5^ inches." 



Male, adult, Xowboog Valley, eastern Kashmir, May 31, 1892; 7,000 

 feet. '<■ Bill and feet black; length, 51 inches." 



Female, adult, Lolab Valley, Kashmir, April 20, 1893. " Bill black; 

 feet dark fleshy brown." 



105. CYANECULA SUECICA (Linnaeus). 



Male, adult, Skardu, Baltistan, March 18, 1892; 7,500 feet. "Bill 

 black; feet dark fleshy brown, soles pale; length, G inches." 



Male, adult, Gol, Indus Valley, Baltistan, March 21, 1892; 8,000 feet. 

 "Bill black, feet dark brownish flesh; irides dark brown; length, 6 

 inches." 



Male, adult, Pashgam, Kashmir, June 25,1893; 9,000 feet. "Bill 

 black, gape j-ellow; feet brownish black ; irides dark brown ; length, 5f 

 inches." 



Male, adult, Leh, Ladak, July 5,:1893; 12,000 feet. "Bill and feet 

 bUick, gape yellow; irides dark brown; length, of inches." 



Male, adult, Nubra Valley, Ladak, July 18, 1893; 11,000 ia^t. " Bill 

 and feet black ; length, 5f inches." 



