332 THE BIRDS OF GILGIT. 



104.— Reguloides subviridis, Brooks. (566 bis). 



Common at 5,000 feet in March, April, May, and beginning 

 of June ; breeds in the Nulter valley in July at 10,000 feet. 

 Young birds shot in August fully fledged. 



105.— Regulus cristatus, Koch. (580). 



One specimen shot at 11,000 feet in July. 



106.— Sylvia affinis, Blyth. (582). 



A summer visitant. Arrives about May 1st, and leaves in 

 October. 



107.— Sylvia althaea, Hume. (582 ter). 



The specimen which I have referred to this species was pro- 

 cured in May. 



108.— Sylvia cinerea, Lath. (582 quat). 



A few specimens were secured each year, in August and 

 September. 



109.— Henicurus scouleri, Vig. (587). 



Tolerably common in all the small streams. In addition 

 to Jerdon's description may be noted that the primaries, 

 except the first and second, and all the secondaries, have part 

 of the outer edge white. There is also a conspicuous dark 

 band across the rump between the white of the lower part of 

 the back and the upper tail-coverts. The flanks are smeared 

 with sooty. 



110.— Motacilla hodgsoni, Gray. (589 bis). 



Extremely rare; only a single specimen obtained, in full 

 breeding plumage, in June, at an elevation of 8,000 feet; two 

 specimens, obtained in April, were assuming the breeding 

 plumage. In September it was tolerably common higher up 

 the Indus towards Iskardo, and was then rapidly assuming 

 the winter plumage. 



Dr. Scully's diagnosis of the grey Wagtails in Stray 

 Feathers, Vol. VIII., p. 312, is extremely clear and accurate, 

 so far as these specimens show, though there is some variation 

 in the size of the bill. 



M. hodgsoni may be best described as the black-backed 

 representative of M. personata; while M. leucopsis (= M. 

 luzoniensis) is the black-backed representative of M. alba. The 

 distinction between M. hodgsoni and M. leucopsis is now pro- 

 bably questioned by no one, though it was formerly discussed 

 in the earlier numbers of Stray Feathers. 



