A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF GILGIT. 109 
61.—Cinclus asiaticus, Swains. (347.) 
This Dipper is a permanent resident, being common in 
summer along the small streams at elevations of 6,000 to 9,000 
feet, and frequenting the larger rivers in winter at an eleva- 
tion of less than 5,000 feet. In ten specimens the wing 
measures 3°55 to 4'1 inches; tail, 2°4 to 2°65; tarsus, 1:05 to 1°2; 
and culmen, 0°9 to 1. 
62.—Cinclus cashmiriensis, Gould. (348.) 
The Kashmir Dipper was only found by me on the stream 
of a valley near Gilgit at an elevation of about 9,000 feet. 
The species was rare there, and only one male (a moulting 
and immature bird) was secured, which measured :—Length, 
7°8 inches ; wing, 3°9; tail, 2°4 ; tarsus, 1:1; bill from gape, 1; 
culmen, 09; bastard primary, 0:9. The following is a descrip- 
tion of my specimen, shot on the 14th October :—Head, 
sides of face and neck, hind neck, and upper back mixed slaty 
grey and dark brown, the latter being the colour of the new 
feathers and marking the adult dress; minor and secondary 
wing-coverts dusky grey, with black margins to tke feathers ; 
greater coverts and quills dusky grey, with narrow white 
margins to their tips; lower back and rump dark grey, the 
feathers with narrow black margins; upper tail-coverts and 
tail slaty grey; chin, throat, breast, and centre of abdomen 
white, with faint narrow brown undulations on the throat and 
breast, and a few new brown feathers on the abdomen; flanks 
dark brown, with narrow pale tips to the feathers ; lower tail- 
coverts slaty grey, pale-tipped. 
63.—Monticola cyanus, Lin. (351.) 
Common at an elevation of 5,000 feet from the third week 
in April to the third week in May, and again from the middle 
to the end of October on migration. In the series collected 
none of the males have any trace of chestnut on the abdomen; 
and in fifteen specimens, the sex of which was carefully deter- 
mined, no female was. met with in the blue plumage of the 
adult male.* In the males the wings measure 4°5 to 4°8 inches; 
‘and in the females, 4°4 to 4°65. 
64.—Monticola cinclorhyncha, Vigors. (353.) 
The only specimen of this species observed in Gilgit was 
shot by me on the 28th September; it may have been on 
migration, or possibly was only a straggler from some of the 
* TI believe that this is a precisely similar case to that of the Merlin. In rare cases 
the old females in both species assume the perfect plumage of the adult male. 
Normally they do not.—Ep., S. F. 
