Ornithology of Gilgit. 587 



spring ; in autumn it occurs in small numbers^ and hardly 

 makes any stay. I secured two specimens, botli males, on 

 the 27th September and 3rd October; the wings measure 

 6'2 and Q'7 inches ; and the axillaries are dark grey. 



-f- 199. j3]]gialitis cui^onica (Gmel.). 



This Plover is common in Gilgit on passage from the end 

 of March to the first week in May, and from the third week 

 in September to the middle of October. Eight specimens 

 preserved have the wings 4*5 to 4*7 inches, and agree com- 

 pletely with European examples. 



f- 200. ^GIALITIS HIATICULA (LiuU.). 



This species seems to be only a rare straggler to Gilgit in 

 autumn, I obtained but one specimen, a female in immature 

 'plumage and lacking the black frontal band, on the 11th 

 October 1879. This example agrees completely with English 

 specimens of the same age, and measures — length 7 inches, 

 wing 4*9, tail 2*25, tarsus 0"93, mid toe and claw 0'85, bill 

 from gape 0"58. JEgialitis hiaticula has only once, with 

 certainty, been recorded from the plains of India (Str. Feath. 

 viii. p. 198, 1879). 



-/- 201. Vanellus VULGARIS, Bcchst. 



Common in spring and autumn on passage ; but a few re- 

 main in favourable spots throughout the winter ; they do not 

 leave the district for the north until about the first week in 

 April. As to the note about the coloration of the sexes 

 {antea^ p. 94), it is certain that the adult female has the lores, 

 chin, and throat black as in the male ; the specimens having 

 these parts white were probably immature. The adult female 

 in breeding-plumage only diflFers from the male in having a 

 shorter crest and the colours less vivid. 



202. Chettusia gregaria (Pallas). 



This species passes through Gilgit on migration in spring 

 and autumn, without making any stay. Occasional speci- 

 mens were secured between the 4th March and 8th April. 



203. LoBivANELLUS iNDicus (Bodd.). 



Apparently only a straggler to Gilgit in spring. I heard 



