334 THE BIRDS OF GILGIT. 



B. With the top of the head pure black ; super- 



cilium very narrow or wanting. 



3. ... ... ... ... 3. melanocepTialus. 



C. With the crown yellowish green ; supercilium 



yellow, broad. 



4. ... ... ... ... B. rayi. 



D. With the crown grey. 



5. Crown pure light grey ; supercilium white, 



broad ; cheeks pale grey and pure white ... B- dubius.* 



6. Crown deeper grey ; supercilium white, 



broad ; cheeks dark grey, with a few 



white streaks ... ... B. flatus. 



7. Crown dark grey ; supercilium white, nar- 



row or wanting ; cheeks dark slate, 



almost black ... ... B. cinereicapillus. 



— G. P. L. M.] 



115.— Budytes melanocephalus, Licht. (593 bis). 



A single female shot on the 10th April in immature plumage. 



116.— Budytes calcaratus, Hodgs. (594). 



Out of ten specimens obtained in May and June, nine are 

 males ; and the only female has the back strongly tinged with 

 green, and a good deal of dusky green is mixed with the 

 yellow on the nape. The young of this species appear to be 

 undistinguishable from those of B. citreolus, except perhaps by 

 a generally rather darker hue. A single specimen was secured 

 in March ; but no others were noticed till May, after which it 

 was common till October. 



117.— Budytes citreolus, Pall. (594 bis). 



Of this species males and females were obtained in about 

 equal proportions. A female shot early in March has the 

 black cowl well developed, and the back from the shoulders to 

 the middle of the tail-coverts pure grey with a very slight 

 wash of green. 



Another, shot at the end of April, is similar, but the black 

 cowl is much less prominent, though the whole head and nape 

 are pure unmixed yellow. 



In a third, shot at the end of May, the back is pure grey, 

 the black cowl entirely absent, and the yellow on the nape is 

 suffused with dusky; this is apparently a breeding but not 

 fully adult bird. The bird figured by Gould (B. Asia, Pt. XVII.) 



[This is Hodgson's name. I think the form with the pale pure blue grey head and 

 much pure white on the cheeKs fairly distinguishable, and would adopt the name 

 beema of Sykes which— dtt&iws of Hodgson, and has priority for it ; but I believe' 

 that in Europe ,the distinctness of this form from flavus is not generally admitted. 

 Note that in my catologue I took Budytes as feminine, but I believe that my 

 derivation was wrong, and that (awkward and barely intelligible as it is) we must 

 derive the word from {3ov-dvTr]Q, and ovrrig, a diver is masculine. So in 

 the Tentative List, "■flwa" &c, must be altered to "j?ai>ws.— "A, 0. H.] 



