110 <A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF GILGIT. 
neighbouring valleys to the south. The bird, a young male, 
is profusely spotted, but has the minor coverts blue, and the tail 
edged with the same colour. Length, 7:25 inches; wing, 3°95 ; 
tail, 2°7; tarsus, 0°95; bill from gape, 1. Bill dusky ; gape pale 
yellow. 
65.—Monticola saxatilis, Zin. (351 ter.) 
Common in Gilgit, on migration, from the 20th August to 
the 30th September. The adults seem to make no stay in 
the district; all the birds observed and shot are immature. 
In thirteen specimens, in immature barred and spotted plumage, 
the wings vary from 4°7 to 4°9 inches. 
67.—Merula atrogularis, Zem. (365.) 
This species is common at an elevation of about 5,000 feet 
from the first week in October to the middle of May. In 
thirteen examples from Gilgit the wings vary in length from 
4:9 to 5:3 inches. My specimens do not bear out Major 
Biddulph’s observation that, when the black on the throat is 
fully assumed, the axillaries and under wing-coverts become 
earth-brown, uniform with the flanks.* 
68.—Turdus viscivorus, Lin. (368.) 
I only met with this Thrush in the Gilgit district in sum- 
mer, at elevations of over 9,000 feet, where it breeds. My 
specimens agree perfectly in colour with examples from Asia 
Minor. An adult bird has the wing 6°45; and a young bird, 
shot on the 28th July, has the wing 6°15. 
69.—Trochalopterum simile, Hume. (418 bis.) 
This fine species is, with us, singularly local. I never saw 
it in Gilgit, but it is common and a permanent resident in 
Sharot and Bargo, 15 miles higher up the valley, at an eleva- 
tion of about 5,500 feet. It is only found in places densely 
covered with trees and bushes. In eleven specimens the 
wing varies in length from 4 to 4°25 inches; all these have 
the outer webs of the quills and the subterminal band on the 
tail pure grey, without any shade of yellow, red, or olive. 
The ear-coverts are ashy, not dark brown; the grey band on 
the uropygial varies in depth from 1 inch to 1:2, and this 
grey band increases on the lateral tail-feathers, encroaching 
more on the outer web; the outermost pair of rectrices are 
not marked at all with black. 
* Vide wy note, S. F., 1X., p. 319. This is clearly some accidental mistake or 
misprint in Major Biddulph’s paper.—ED., S. F. 
