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146.— Sturnus purpurascens, Gould. (681 ter). 



A winter visitant The specimens obtained are precisely 

 similar to those got in Yarkand. 



147.— Temenuchus pagodarum, Gm. (687). 



One or two procurable each summer, at all elevations up 

 to 8,000 feet, where cattle are herded. 



148.— Pastor roseus, Lin. (690). 



Two young birds of the year shot on the 19th and 28th 

 August ; a few others in immature plumage were also seen at 

 the same time, but no adults. 



149.— Passer indicus, Jard. 8f Selb. (706). 



Begin to disappear in November, and leave Gilgit alto- 

 gether during the time of extreme cold. In both years they 

 reappeared in small numbers on 22nd February, but did not 

 become common till the end of March. Dr. Scully writes 

 that he has procured specimens all through the last winter ; 

 they were certainly not there in the two preceding winters. 



150.— Passer hispaniolensis, Tem. (707). 



Two specimens only procured in the winter. The female 

 differs from that of P. indicus in having a stronger bill, and 

 having a very faint supercilium ; otherwise the markings are 

 so similar that it is not distinguishable. 



151.— Petronia stulta,* Gm. (711 bis). 



This Sparrow was tolerably common in December, January, 

 and February. It was generally in flocks of fifteen or sixteen, 

 and prefers open stony places. I never saw it near trees. 



* [This species has not been described in Steay Feathebs, and I may therefore 

 describe it from a number of Gilgit and other specimens in our Museum. The 

 sesea hardly differ; but as a rule the yellow throat spot is comparatively incon- 

 spicuous in the female, and in most specimens of this sex the colouration generally is 

 a trifle duller. In the young of both sexes the throat spot is always obsolete or 

 nearly so, and the colouration everywhere markedly paler, especially on the abdomen. 



The bill is a moderately dark brown ; a dull yellowish fleshy towards the gape and 

 on the basal half or nearly so of the lower mandible ; the legs and feet light brown ; 

 the irides hazel (?) 



The forehead, crown and occiput are brown, darker in some, lighter in some speci- 

 mens ; the feathers usually more or less paling towards the margins. A broad whity 

 brown band commencing just above the forehead runs down the centre of the crown 

 and occiput, and widens out somewhat on the nape. From the nostrils, a pale fawny 

 stripe runs backwards over the eyes and far behind these over the ear-coverts joining, 

 or nearly joining, the expanded tips of the crown stripe at the sides of the nape. 

 This supercilium is very dull and ill-defined where it commences, and nearly obsolefe 

 above the middle of the lores. The lores are mostly a darker brown, and a corre- 

 sponding dark brown stripe runs from the posterior angle of the eye along the top 

 of the ear-coverts (immediately under[the fawny whitejstripe already referred to), and 

 partially curves round their tips behind. The cheeks, throat, ear-coverts and sides of 

 the neck are pale fawny or earthy brown, but there ia a more or less well marked 



