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BIRDS FROM KASHMIR— RICHMOND. 



108. lANTHIA RUFILATA (Hodgson). 



Male, adult, central Kaslimir, July 23, 1891 ; 11,000 feet. 



Female, adult, eeutral Kashmir, July 23, 1891; 12,000 feet. 



Female, adult, eeutral Kaslimir, July 23, 1891; 11,000 feet; two 

 specimeus. 



IVIale, immature, eeutral Kaslimir, July 2-4, 1891; 11,000 feet. 



Male, adult, central Kaslimir, July 28, 1891; 11,000 feet. "Bill and 

 feet black; irides dark brown." 



Male, immature, central Kasbmir, Jnly 28, 1891; 12,000 feet. 



Young-, Pir Panjal range, Kasbmir, August 27, 1891; 8,000 feet. 



Male, adult, Pir Panjal range, Kashmir, August 29, 1891; 9,000 feet. 

 " Length, 5| inches." 



Male, young, western Kashmir, September 11, 1891 ; 9,000 feet. 



An adult male from central Kashmir has a distinct spot of silky white 

 feathers in the blue superciliary line, just posterior to the eyes; the 

 plumage is otherwise quite normal. 



109. MERULA MERULA MAXIMA (Seebohm). 



Female, adult, central Kashmir, July 22, 1891; 11,000 feet. 



Female, adult, central Kashmir, July 27, 1891; 12,000 feet. 



These specimens are in very abraded summer plumage, and were 

 doubtless resident and breeding- in central Kashmir. They bear out 

 Mr. Seebohm's original measurements and point to the higher altitudes 

 as the summer home of this form. It is quite probable that this bird 

 does not range very far north of Kashmir, as the birds of eastern 

 Turkestan are referable to a form intermediate between this one and 

 the common Blackbird of Europe. The Abbott specimens, though much 

 abraded, give the following measurements : 



Measurements of Merula merula viaxima. 



Mr. Seebohm's measurements of the Jerdoii Kashmir specimen are : 

 Wing, 5.85 inches; tail, 4.90; tarsus, 1.50; culnien, 0.95. 



110. MERULA CASTANEA, Gould. 



Male, adult, western Kashmir, July 3, 1891 ; 7,000 feet. 

 Male, adult, western Kashmir, July 6, 1891 ; 8,000 feet. 

 Male, adult, Lolab, Kashmir, Jnly 12, 1891; 0,000 feet. 

 Female, adult, Kaj Nag Mountains, Kaslimir, April 23, 1892; 8,000 

 feet. "Bill yellow; feet dirty yellow; length, lOf inches." 



