440 Mr. J. Scully on the 



grey band increases on the lateral tail-feathers^ encroaching 

 more on the outer web : the outermost pair of rectrices are 

 not marked at all with black. 



70. Trochalopterum lineatum (Vigors). 



A permanent resident, common and widely distributed in 

 the district, wherever bushes and trees are found, at elevations 

 of from 4600 to 9000 feet ; it breeds in June. Gilgit exam- 

 ples are identical with specimens from the Kashmir valley^ 

 and are rather larger and paler than the birds from the more 

 eastern parts of the Himalayas. 



71. Oriolus kundoo, Sykes. 



This Oriole is found throughout the summer about orchards 

 in the lower valleys, and apparently does not ascend above 

 7000 feet ; it migrates southwards from Gilgit in September. 

 It is remarkable that this species, which is widely spread and 

 sedentary in many parts of the plains of India, should be a 

 summer migrant to the valley of Nepal, Gilgit^ and even to 

 Yarkand in Central Asia. Specimens from these three loca- 

 lities, however, are quite identical with examples from the 

 plains of India. 



Pratincola caprata, Linn. 



Of this species, which is not included in Major Biddulph^s 

 list, I shot a single specimen in Gilgit on the 10th December, 

 1879, when it was doubtless on migration ; this was the only 

 occasion on which it was observed. The bird, a female, 

 measured — length 5'05 inches, wing 2"64, tail 1'95, tarsus 

 0'8, bill from gape 0'63. Bill, feet, and claws black, irides 

 dark brown ; upper tail-coverts deep ferruginous, lower tail- 

 coverts buif. P. caprata has been found as far west as the 

 valley of the xitreck (Seebohm, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 764). 



72. Pratincola mauka (Pallas). 



This species is common in Gilgit from the last week in 

 March to the middle of May, and again from the first week 

 in September to the beginning of November. It probably 

 breeds in the district at high elevations. In seventeen spe- 

 cimens the wings vary from 2*55 to 2*97 inches, and the tails 



