208 Lord Walden on Dr. Stoliczka's " Ornithological 



zealous cooperator with Mr. Layard. It bears the same relation 

 to D. pallida, Smith (111. Zool. S. Afr. pi. 72. %. 2) that 

 Phyllopneuste trochilus does to P. bonellii — an analogy which 

 seems to be found in the whole of the Sylviad group, there 

 being usually a brown and a representative yellow species. The 

 tarsi are one-third shorter than in D. pallida. 



XIX. — Remarks on Dr. Stoliczka's " Ornithological Observations 

 in the Sutlej Valley." By Arthur Viscount Walden, P.Z.S. 

 &c. 



In the ' Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ' for 1868, 

 a paper has been published, entitled " Ornithological Obser- 

 vations in the Sutlej Valley, N.W. Himalayas," which deserves 

 the attention and the study of the philosophical ornithologist. 

 The author. Dr. Stoliczka, is a gentleman whose name is well 

 known as that of a distinguished palaeontologist and geologist. 

 And this, I believe, his first ornithological contribution pos- 

 sesses merits more than sufficient to entitle him to a high place 

 among scientific ornithologists. The accession to our ranks of 

 of a recruit already so eminent in other branches of the natural 

 sciences will be hailed with pleasure, and, by those who aim at 

 higher objects than the mere priority of naming their species, 

 with gratitude. The addition of another labourer in the but 

 partially tilled field of Asiatic zoology will be welcome to the 

 few, though happily increasing, workers in that much-neglected 

 region of the earth's surface ; while a perusal of Dr. Stoliczka's 

 paper will show that it is possible for a naturalist primarily and 

 chiefly occupied with a widely differing branch of research, to 

 combine a record of practical zoological observations made in the 

 field with an almost rigid accuracy of nomenclature. 



An account of the collections made by Dr. Stoliczka, of which 

 a translation appeared in this Journal for July last*, will already 

 have enabled its readers to estimate his activity in the good 

 cause. The collection there noticed was a general one of 

 birds obtained in Tibet as well as in the Himalayas. The list 

 I now propose noticing is confined to the species which inhabit a 



• Ibis, 1868, pp. 302-321. 



