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mediate in length between the fifth and sixth, and the distance 
between the tips of the secondaries and the point of the wing 
is less than the length of the tarsus. There are also some 
minor differences in colour, amount of cross-barring beneath, 
and in the relative lengths of the uropygials, and second 
primary. 
53.—Pericrocotus brevirostris, Vigors. (273.) 
This species seems to be only a winter visitor to the lower 
valleys of the Gilgit district; it is not uncommon from the 
last week in October to the beginning of February. All the 
flocks I saw consisted exclusively of females and young males 
in grey and bright yellow plumage, the gorgeous black and 
crimson adult males being conspicuous by their absence. 
Six specimens measured :—Length, 7°3 to 8°3 ; wing, 3°5 to 3°7 ; 
tail, 4 to 4:7; bill from gape, 0°72 to 0:76. These examples 
agree well with a series of Pericrocotus brevirostris from the 
Himalayas further east, but have the ear-coverts paler grey. 
54.—Buchanga longicaudata, Hay. (280.) 
This species is only a straggler to Gilgit, probably from 
some of the lower and hotter valleys further south. A female 
shot in Gilgit on the 2nd of September measured :—Leneth, 10°8 
inches ; wing, 5°3 ; tail to fork, 4, to end of outermost rectrices, 
5°9 ; tarsus, 0°65 ; bill from gape, 1:05. This was an immature 
bird with whole lower surface dull black without gloss, the 
under wing-coverts barred and tipped with white, and the 
irides dark brown. 
55.—Muscipeta paradisi, Zin. (288.) 
This Flycatcher is rare in Gilgit, and appears to visit us 
only on migration. I obtained a male on the 11th May, in 
chestnut plumage and with the short tail; the crest was well 
developed, and the chin and throat glossy black. An imma- 
ture specimen procured on the 25th August is also in chest- 
nut plumage, but with the crest short, and the neck and breast 
dull ashy. Severtzoff records this species as migratory to 
Turkestan, where it breeds; so the examples obtained at 
Gilgit may have been on migration to and from that country. 
56.—Hemichelidon sibirica, Gmel. (296.) 
This Flycatcher appears in Gilgit as early as the 11th May, 
and leaves for the south in September. From the middle of 
May to the first week in June it is common in the lower 
valleys, principally in orchards, at elevations of 5,000 to 7,000 
feet; in the latter part of June and throughout July and 
