108 A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF GILGIT. 
August it is only found in the forest above 8,000 feet, where 
it breeds. A young but full-grown bird, shot on the 6th 
August, differs a little from Mr. Sharpe’s description of the 
young of this species (Cat. 1V., p.121). Head sooty, narrowly 
streaked with white; back brown, streaked and mottled with 
buff; rump and upper tail-coverts margined and spotted with 
rufous buff; lower tail-coverts rufesceut, edges of quills as in 
ut ; gape bright yellow, base of mandible yellow; iris 
ack. 
57.—Muscicapa grisola, Lin. (299 bis.) 
This species is common from the middle of May to the 
end of September. In May, and during the last three weeks 
of September, it is found in the lower parts of the valleys; but 
from the beginning of June to the first week in September it 
is only met with in the pine-forests, at elevations of over 
8,000 feet, where it breeds. Examples shot in September 
have the wing-coverts and secondaries broadly margined and 
tipped with pale fulvous; in midsummer these feathers are 
narrowly margined with white. 
58.—Siphia ruficauda, Swains. (307.) 
A summer visitor only, arriving about the 10th May, and 
doubtless breeding in the pine-forests. The sexes do not 
differ in any way in colour. The maxilla is dark brown and 
the mandible pale horny. 
59.—Troglodytes neglectus, Brooks, (338 bis.) 
This Wren is a permanent resident in the district, and in 
winter is one of the commonest and most familiar birds in 
the lower parts of the valleys. Four specimens measured :— 
Length, 3°5 to 3°8 inches; wing, 1:8 to 2°05; tail, 1°15 to 1°35; 
tarsus, 0°65 to 0°7; bill from gape, 0°57 to 0°6. Compared 
with specimens of J. nipalensis from Sikkim, I find that the 
distinctions on which Mr. Brooks separated the Kashmir 
Wren from the Eastern-Himalayan form are fairly borne out. 
The Gilgit birds are paler in colour, and have the feet smaller 
and more slender, with the claws shorter and less powerful than 
in 7’. nipaiensis. 
60.—Myiophoneus temmincki, Vig. (343.) 
Gilgit specimens are identical with examples from Kashmir. 
In males the wings measure 7:1 to 7:6 inches; in females, 
67 to 68. 
