510 Mr. N. B. Kinnear on the Birds collected [Ibis, 



Chimarrhornis leucocephalus (Vigors). 



293 c? 15.8.21 Khurta Valley 12,000 ft. ; 329 ^ 29.8.21 

 Choo- La 15,500 ft. 



The White-headed Redstart, according to Colonel Bailey, 

 is very common and nests in the Chnmbi Valley at 11,000 ft., 

 but was not observed by the members of the Tibet Mission 

 beyond Phari. On the Lanier Pass in Rupshn Stoliczka 

 saw this Redstart at 17,500 ft. 



[Found on the banks of torrents from 9000 to 16,000 ft. ; 

 very seldom seen more than a few yards from water. — 

 A. F. R. W.] 



Phcenicurus ochruros rufiventris (Vieill.). 



252 imm. 13.7.21 Thungla 15,000 ft.; 240 ? 17.7.21 

 Nyenyam 13,000 ft. ; 272 imm. 11.8.21, 291 S 15.8.21, 

 292 ? 15.8.21, 308 ^ 20.5.21, 311 ^ 20.8.21, Kharta 

 12,500 ft. ; 327 imm. 28.8.21 Kh;ima Valley 15,000 ft. ; 

 334 imm. 4.9.21 Kharta Valley 12,500 ft. ; 3G1 S 10.9.21, 

 3G7 c? 18.9.21, E. Everest 17,000 ft.; 380 ^ 23.9.21 E. 

 Everest 18,000 ft. ; 382 S 24.9.21 E. Everest 18,500 ft. 



Nests near Rham-tso at 14,700 ft. and pi-obably np to 

 15,000 ft., as skin No. 327 is that of a young bird not long- 

 out of the nest. 



Blanford noticed this Redstart on mio-ration near Samdono-, 

 15,000 ft., in northern Sikkim in the autunm, but no other 

 observer has recorded it from so high an elevation as 

 Mr. Woliaston. 



[Nests and young birds found in several places in June. 

 Large numl)ers on migration in September up to 20,000 f'(., 

 Mt. Everest.— A. F. R. W.] 



Phoenicurus erythrogaster grandis (Giild.). 



2G0 S 29.7.21 KipraklG,200ft.; 335 imm. 6.9.21 Upper 

 Kharta Valley 1G,000 ft. ; 343 ^ 7.9.21 Upper Kharta 

 Valley 17,200ft.; 347 ? 9.9.21 Everest 17,000 ft.; 350 

 ^ 11.9.21,352 c?,365 ? 12.9.21, E. Everest 17,500 ft. 



I can find no record of Giildenstadt's Afohan Redstart 

 breeding in the Himalaya or Kashmir, and Colonel Walton 

 was unable to say whether it bred in southern Tibet. He shot 



