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British Museum, the Zoological Society's library, or in any 

 private library to which. I have access. 



Saxicola Kingi, Hume, is apparently identical with S. CHRYSO- 

 pygia, De Filippi. 



I agree with Mr. Hume in considering Laninus arenarius, 

 Blyth, with the same as L. isabellinus, H. & E. 



Emberiza cerrutii, De Filippi (1865, Viaggio in Persia, p. 13, 

 note) is E. huttoni, Blyth (1849). E. shah (Bon. Consp. Gen. 

 Ay., i., p. 465), to w T hich Gray, in his Hand-list, refers E. cerrutii 

 appears to me to be the Persian form of E. hortulana. 



The pale Eagle-owl from Kulii, noticed by Mr. Hume in 

 1 Stray Feathers' (vol. i., p. 315), and for which, if considered 

 distinct, he proposes the name of Bubo himachalana, is very pro- 

 bably the same as B. sibiricus, Eversmann, figured in Gray's 

 ' Genera of Birds' (pi. xiii.) under the name of B. cinereus. It 

 may probably be separable as a distinct race from B. maximus, 

 and appears to have a wide range in Asia. I have a specimen 

 shot by Major St. John near Shiraz, in Persia. Its occurrence 

 in the Himalayas is mentioned by Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 99, 

 and again in the Appendix to Jerdon's ' Birds of India' (vol. 

 ii., p. 870). 



I have recently been favored by Mr. Frederick Field, of Shah- 

 poor in the Punjaub, with a specimen of Pterocles seneg alius, 

 Lin. I have already introduced this species into our 

 Avifauna, {vide Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 221,) having found it 

 common in Sinclh, but the present specimen was obtained much 

 further north. It was shot on the 4th December 1873 at 

 Hadali in the "Thali" of the Shahpoor district to the north 

 of the Jhelum. 



Mr. Field adds : — " For the first time, in the plains, I have 

 seen Myiophoneus Temminckii. There is one now (17th 

 December) about the gardens in this station (Shahpoor). I 

 have seen it several times.'" This species, during the cold 

 weather, strays down into the plains to considerable distances 

 from the hills. It may be met with here and there as a 

 straggler in winter throughout Northern Behar, and Northern 

 Oude, and Northern Rohilcund. It is plentiful in the Dhoon, 

 not very rare in Saharunpoor and the sub-Himalayan plains 

 districts westwards of the Jumna. It is common enough at 

 Attock, and I have seen it often in the salt range, which bounds 

 the northern portion of the Shahpoor district. 



