366 THE BIRDS OF GILGIT. 



spicuously tipped and fringed on the outer margin with 

 white; inner web broadly margined with white, the basal 

 portion being completely white ; greater primary coverts 

 brown bordered with white ; secondary coverts broadly edged 

 with grey ; lesser coverts coloured like the upper surface ; 

 tertiaries and scapulars brown tipped with white ; upper tail- 

 coverts white, with a few brown spots ; tail pure white at 

 base, with a broad black terminal band ; under surface white, 

 suffused w r ith brown on the neck and sides of the breast ; 

 under tail-coverts white, with a large brown spot on outer web 

 near tip ; axillaries pure white, a few of them fwith a brown 

 spot at tip ; under wing-coverts white, barred with brown.* 



Dimensions (taken from dried skin) : — Wing, 17*15 inches ; 

 tail, 7*3 ; tarsus, 2'65 ; (longer by 0*4 than the middle toe with 

 claw, which, according to Mr. Howard Saunders, serves to 

 distinguish this species from L. cac/dnnans and L. argentatus). 

 Bill, blackish, with horny tips, yellowish at base of lower 

 mandible. Length from gape, 3*25 inches. Legs and feet, yellow. 



246.— Gelochelidon anglica, Mont. (983). 



Terns are seldom seen, and never linger on their passage 

 through. One specimen secured 23rd April. 



247.— Hydrochelidon hybrida, Pall. (984). 



Two specimens secured 22nd April, when a party of eight 

 or ten were seen. 



In a young bird procured by Dr. Scully, 29th August, the 

 bill is black, not red, as suggested by Hume (Stray Feathers, 

 VII., p. 445), and the feet are dark brown with a reddish tinge. f 



A Tern, which looked like Sterna fluviatilis% was seen by me 

 on 23rd August, evidently passing through on its way south. 



248.— Hydrochelidon nigra, Lin. (984 ter). 



Since my leaving Grilgit, Dr. Scully writes that he has 

 secured five specimens, which he believes to belong to this 

 species or to H. leucoptera. The measurements vary from 8"2 

 to 9 inches in the wing, and from 0*74 to 0*9 in the tarsus. 



249.— Graculus§ carbo, Lin. (1005). 



Several times I have seen a Cormorant which I assign to 

 this species ; but I have never secured a specimen. On 12th 

 September 1 saw a flock of five in the Sai valley. 



* [The specimen described is of course a quite immature bird. Adults are described 

 under the name of L. argentatus, S. F., I., 270. — A. O. H.] 



f [Not impossibly this specimen was one of H. nigra, of which the bill is black 

 and. the feet dark brown with a red tinge. — A. O. H.] 



J [This was almost certainly Sterna tibetana. — A. O. H.] 



§ [Must stand, I think, as Phalacrocorax carbo.— A. O. H.] 



