80 Major J. Biddulpli on the Birds of Gilgit. 



the beginning of April, and breeds at about 8000 feet. I 

 took two nests (second brood, no doubt) in the first week of 

 August. Both were on the ground, under a stone. One had 

 only one e^g in it, the other three. 



I also took a nest with three fresh eggs in it on 1st June 

 at 9000 feet, and took two nests, each with three eggs quite 

 fresh, on 23rd and 24tli June, 



The colouring of all Gilgit specimens is paler than that of 

 Cashmere or Simla individuals. 



[The collection contains a large series of specimens of 

 this bird, which I have compared and found identical with 

 the plate of E. stracheyi by Wolff in the ' Proceedings ' of 

 the Zoological Society for 1855. The difference pointed out 

 by Dresser in the ' Birds of Europe,' the absence of the 

 white spots on the wing-coverts, holds good ; but in some 

 winter specimens the pale fulvous spots approach very closely 

 to the white spots of E. cici. There is, however, a further and 

 well-marked difference in the pure white of the nuchal end of 

 the supercilium in E. stracheyi as compared with the grey of 

 that part in E. cia, giving in the former bird three pure 

 white marks on the side of the head, instead of two. In E. 

 stracheyi the entire supercilium throughout its length is pure 

 white.— G. F. L. M.] 



154. Emberiza hortulana, Linn. 



A single specimen, a female or young male, shot at Chim- 

 mooghur, in the main valley, ten miles from the Indus, on 

 26th May. Evidently migrating at the time. Length 6'4 

 inches, wing 3"2, tail 2"6, tarsus '75. Irides dark brown. 



The head is considerably battered ; but the yellow tone of 

 the markings on the throat, the greenish tone of the head, as 

 far as traceable, and the strongly defined striations of the 

 upper plumage serve sufliciently to distinguish it from E. 

 buchanani. 



The tints agree well with those of the figure of the young 

 bird given by Dresser in the ' Birds of Europe,' pi. 99. 



155. Emberiza buchanani, Blyth. 



Not observed in the first year ; but a number appeared in 

 the beginning of September in the second year. 



