436 Mr. J. Scully on the 



crimson adult males being conspicuous by their absence. 

 Six specimens measured — length 7*3 to 8*3^ wing 3*5 to 3*7, 

 tail 4 to 4'7, bill from gape 0*72 to 0-76. These examples 

 agree well with a series of Pericrocotus brevirostris from the 

 Himalayas further east^ but have the ear-coverts paler grey. 



54. BUCHANGA LONGICAUDATA (Hay) . 



This species is only a straggler to Grilgit, probably from 

 some of the lower and hotter valleys further south. A 

 female shot in Gilgit on the 2nd of September measured — 

 length 10'8 inches, wing 5'3, tail to fork 4, to end of outer- 

 most rectrices 5"9, tarsus 065, bill from gape 1"05 ; this 

 was an immature bird with whole lower surface dull black 

 without gloss, the under wing-coverts barred and tipped with 

 white, and the irides dark brown. 



55. MusciPETA PARADisi (Linn.). 



This Flycatcher is rare in Gilgit, and appears to visit us 

 only on migration. I obtained a male on the 11th May, in 

 chestnut plumage and with the short tail ; the crest was well 

 developed, and the chin and throat glossy black. An imma- 

 ture specimen procured on the 25th August is also in chest- 

 nut plumage, but with the crest short, and the neck and 

 breast dull ashy. Severtzoff records this species as migratory 

 to Turkestan, where it breeds ; so the examples obtained at 

 Gilgit may have been on migration to and from that country. 



56. Hemichelidon sibirtca (Gmel.). 



This Flycatcher appears in Gilgit as early as the 11th May, 

 and leaves for the south in September. From the middle of 

 May to the first week in June it is common in the lower 

 valleys, principally in orchards, at elevations of 5000 to 7000 

 feet; in the latter part of June and throughout July and 

 August it is only found in the forest above 8000 feet, where 

 it breeds. A young but full-grown bird, shot on the 6th 

 August, differs a little from Mr. Sharpens description of the 

 young of this species (Cat. iv. p. 121). Head sooty, narrowly 

 streaked with white ; back brown, streaked and mottled with 

 buff; rump and upper tail-coverts margined and spotted with 

 rufous buff; lower tail-coverts rufescent, edges of quills as in 



