448 Mr. J. Scully on the 



pared it, and that it is undoubtedly an example of the white- 

 throated form of Cyanecula wolfi in full breeding-plumage. 

 I did not obtain another example, unless a female, shot on 

 the 1st of September, ought to be assigned to this species. 



93. ACROCEPHALUS DUMETORUM, Blyth. 



A summer visitor only, leaving the district in September. 

 In seven specimens the wings measure 3*4' to .2"5 inches, tail 

 2-15 to 2-33, tarsus 0-84 to 0-9, culmenO-64 to 0-68; second 

 primary intermediate between the fifth and sixth. 



94. DuMETicoLA MAJOR, Brooks. 



A summer visitor only. In ten specimens the total length 

 varied from 5*9 to 6*45 inches, wing 2*2 to 2'35, tail 2'4 to 

 2*65, bill from gape 0'75 to 0-85. The third or fourth pri- 

 maries are longest, the second equals the seventh or eighth, 

 and the exposed portion of the bastard primary averages 0*55. 



96. Phylloscopus tristis, Blyth. 



Common in the lower valleys on arrival from the first week 

 in March to the middle of April, and again from the third 

 ■week in September to the end of November, on its way to 

 the south ; in summer only found above 8000 feet. I cannot 

 detect any difference between several of my skins and ex- 

 amples of P. sindianus, Brooks, described in ' Stray Feathers,' 

 viii. p. 476 (1879). 



97. Phylloscopus lugubris, Blyth. 



I have no specimen in my collection which can be referred 

 to this species. The example obtained by Major Biddulph 

 may perhaps have been P. magnirostris, Avhich is closely allied 

 to P. lugubris. The latter has hitherto been considered quite 

 an Eastern form, not occurring in the north-west of India ; 

 while P. magnirostris, according to Mr. Brooks, breeds in 

 Cashmere, and is therefore more likely to occur in Gilgit. 



98. Phylloscopus viridanus, Blyth. 



I secured specimens as late as the 23rd September at 

 Gilgit, on migration south. 



Phylloscopus nitidus, Blyth. 



This species must, I believe, be added to the Gilgit list on 



