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clearly, and on this account I do not consider them to represent the 

 pale form of the Eagle Owl described by Hume as B. hemacJialana, which 

 he avers is "of precisely the same type of coloration " as the Eagle Owl 

 of Europe, but "very much paler." In B. b. turcomanus the pattern of 

 coloration of the tail and wings particularly departs considerably from 

 that of the typical Eagle Owl, but I do not consider the x^resent bird 

 to be specifically distinct from it, as advanced by some. 



11. ASIO ACCIPITRINUS (PaUas). 



Male, adult, Shigar Yalley, Baltistan, January 11, 1892; 8,000 feet. 

 "Bill .black, except extreme tip, which is white; claws black; irides 

 golden yellow; length, 13| inches." 



12. SYRNIUM ALUCO BIDDULPHI (Scully). 



Female, adult, central Kashmir, September 30, 1891; 11,000 feet 

 "Length, 18^ inches." Wing, 12.00 inches; tail, 8.20. 



Female, adult, central Kashmir, October 10, 1891; 9,000 feet 

 "Length, 17| inches." Wing, 12.37 inches; tail, 8.60. 



Female, adult, Xowboog Yalley, eastern Kashmir, May 31, 1892 

 7,000 feet. "Bill pale greenish; claws fleshy, black at tip; soles yel 

 lowish; irides brown." Wing, 12.82 inches; tail, 9.12. 



If 8. a. biddulpM is distinct from Syrnium aluco niricolum, our speci 

 mens should be referred as above, but I am at i^resent unable to satis 

 factorily determine its status, having at hand no specimens of S. a. nivi- 

 colum for comparison. 



13. CARINE NOCTUA BACTRIANA (Hutton). 



Male, immature, Shyok Elver, below Sasser Pass, Ladak, July 22, 

 1893; 14,000 feet. "Bill yellowish green ; cere wax brown ; length, 9^ 

 inches." 



Female, immature, Shyok Eiver, below Sasser Pass, Ladak, July 22, 

 1893; 14,000 feet. "Bill yellowish green; cere wax brown; irides yel- 

 low; claws horn black; soles of feet yellow ; length, 9:| inches." 



Family CORVID.E. 



14. CORVUS FRUGILEGUS, Linnaeus. 



Adult, Yale of Kashmir, winter of 1891-'92. 



15. CORVUS CORAX, Linnaeus. 



Male, adult, Shigar Yalley, Baltistan, November 22, 1891 ; 8,000 feet. 

 "Length, 2Gi inches." Wing, 17.80 inches; tail, 10.40; tarsus, 2.75; 

 culmen, 2.80. 



Female, adult, Shigar Yalley, Baltistan, November 22, 1891; 8,000 feet. 

 "Length, 24 inches." Wing, 16.15 inches; tail, 10.25; tarsus, 2.60; 

 cuhnen, 2.57. 



