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pale form; but two specimens have the black bars on the 

 upper surface rather strongly marked, though not so greatly 

 as in the race called C. saturaius (Blyth). A male in trans- 

 ition from immature to adult dress has the change most 

 marked on the rump, next on the head, and least on the tail ; 

 the tail is usually considered the first part to undergo change. 

 An old female has the rump and upper tail-coverts blue-grey, 

 with faintly rufous tips ; the tail grey, washed with rufous, 

 especially at the margins, and with incomplete black bars, 

 interrupted along the shafts of the feathers. 



10. AsTUR PALUMBARics (Linn.). 



Goshawks are not uncommon about Gilgit in autumn, on 

 migration. In the autumn of 1879 many immature speci- 

 mens were captured in Gilgit itself. The instance mentioned 

 by Major Biddulph of a Goshawk being carried from the 

 Valley of the Oxus to Bombay, and many similar cases known 

 to me, should be borne in mind in assigning localities for 

 trained birds of prey. Thus the fact that a Rajah in the 

 Punjab has a trained Falcon of a certain species, should cer- 

 tainly not be considered proof that the bird in question was 

 not captured in Central Asia. 



11. ScELospiziAS CADius (Gmcl.). 



A migratory species in Gilgit, passing northwards in April, 

 and southwards in September. It is rare with us, or, at all 

 events, makes a very short stay in the district. 



12. AcciPiTER Nisus (Linn.). 



Common from the first week in April to the second week 

 in December. In seven males the wing measures 8 inches to 

 8"5, tail Q'Q to 7*1, tarsus 2 to 2*2; weight 5 to 5"3 ounces. 

 Seven females measure, wing 9*3 to 10 inches, tJiil 7'9 to 8*5, 

 tarsus 2" 15 to 2*4 ; weight 7 to 9-5 ounces. Of these fourteen 

 examples two males and two females have five bars on the 

 uropygials, all the rest have only four bars on these feathers. 



14. Aquila chrysaetus (Linn.) , 



An old male, without any white on the tail, shot on the 

 3rd April, measured: — Length 33*5 inches, expanse 82*5, 



