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105. E/EGULUS CRISTATUS (Kocll). 



One specimen shot at 1 1^000 feet in July. 



106. Sylvia affinis, Bly.th. 



A summer visitant. Arrives about May 1, and leaves in 

 October. 



107. Sylvia alth.ea, Hume. 



The specimen which I have referred to this species was pro- 

 cured in May. 



108. Sylvia cinerea (Lath.). 



A few specimens were secured each year/ in August and 

 September. 



109. Henicurus scouleri (Vig.). 



Tolerably common in all the small streams. In addition 

 to Jerdon's description may be noted that the primaries, ex- 

 cept the first and second, and all the secondaries, have part 

 of the outer edge white. There is also a conspicuous dark 

 band across the rump between the white of the lower part of 

 the back and the upper tail-coverts. The flanks are smeared 

 with sooty. 



110. Motacilla hodgsoni, Gray. 



Extremely rare ; only a single specimen obtained, in full 

 breeding-plumage, in June, at an elevation of 8000 feet ; two 

 specimens, obtained in April, were assuming the breeding- 

 plumage. In September it was tolerably common higher up 

 the Indus towards Iskardo, and was then rapidly assuming 

 the winter plumage. 



Dr. ScuUy^s diagnosis of the grey Wagtails in ' Stray Fea- 

 thers,^ vol. viii. p. 312, is extremely clear and accurate, so 

 far as these specimens show, though there is some variation 

 in the size of the bill. 



M. hodgsoni may be best described as the black-backed 

 representative of M. per sonata ; while M. leucopsis ( = M. 

 luzoniensis) is the black-backed representative of M. alba. 

 The distinction between M. hodgsoni and M. leucopsis is now 

 probably questioned by no one, though it was formerly dis- 

 cussed in the earlier numbers of ' Stray Feathers.'' 



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