238 Capt. II. J.Walton on the 



tions throughout the year. This species frequents the 

 barren uplands, and was not seen at Gyantse or Lhasa. It 

 runs very swiftly, and, both during flight and on alighting, 

 utters loud whistling notes. It was always tame, and allowed 

 me to approach to within a very short distance. During the 

 winter at Tuna immense flocks slept on the open plain, each 

 bird sheltered from the wind on the leeside of a small stone. 

 Individuals were apparently breeding at the Karo La Pass in 

 July. The black markings are very indistinct and brownish in 

 the hen birds, which are much less numerous than the males. 

 In both sexes, in winter, the " horns " are not at all con- 

 spicuous. The Tibetan name for this bird is " Bo-nak-ma " 

 ("The bird with the black breast"). 



73. Melanocorypha maxima. 



Melanocorypha maxima Gould; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., 

 Birds, ii. p. 322. 



a. ? sex. Khamba Jong, 15,200 feet, Sept. 1903. 



6. $ adult. „ „ Sept. 6, 1903. 



No. 1741. <J adult. Khamba Jong, 15,200 feet, Oct. 9, 

 1903. Bill whitish horny, culmen and tips dusky ; feet 

 black, mottled with dull reddish ; iris dark brown. 



No. 1712. (J immature. Khamba Jong, 15,200 feet, Oct. 

 9, 1903. 



No. 1772. c? immature. Khamba Jong, 15,200 feet, Nov. 

 8, 1903. 



No. 1887. S adult. Tuna, 15,000 feet, Feb. 28, 1904 



No. 1889. ? adult. „ „ March 2, 1904. 



Nos. 1890, 1891. tJ adult. Tuna, 15,000 feet, March 2, 

 1 90 1, 



No. 1984. S adult. Nagartse, 13,C00 feet, July 20,1901. 



Most of these skins have the secondaries rather more 

 widely tipped with white than the specimens in the British 

 Museum. 



This Lark is a bird of the highest altitudes. It was locally 

 very common, occurring at Khamba Jong up to the beginning 

 of December. I saw none at Tuna until the beginning of 

 March, when considerable flocks arrived. They frequented 



