A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF GILGIT: 111 
70.—Trochalopterum lineatum, Vigors. (425.) 
A permanent resident, common and widely distributed in 
the district, wherever bushes and trees are found, at elevations 
of from 4,600 to 9,000 feet; it breeds in June. Gilgit exam- 
ples are identical with specimens from the Kashmir valley, 
and are rather larger and paler* than the birds from the more 
eastern parts of the Himalayas. 
71.—Oriolus kundoo, Sykes. (470.) 
This Oriole is found throughout the summer about orchards 
in the lower valleys, and apparently does not ascend above 
7,000 feet ; it migrates southwards from Gilgit in September. 
It is remarkable that this species, which is widely spread and 
sedentary in many parts of the plains of India, should be a 
summer migrant to the valley of Nepal, Gilgit, and even to 
Yarkand in Central Asia. Specimens from these three loca- 
lities, however, are quite identical with examples from the 
plains of India. 
Pratincola caprata, Zin. (481.) 
Of this species, which is uot included in Major Biddulph’s 
list, I shot a single specimen in Gilgit on the 10th December 
1879, when it was doubtless on migration; this was the only 
occasion on which it was observed. The bird, a female, 
measured :—Leneth, 5°05 inches ; wing, 2°64 ; tail, 1:95; tarsus, 
6°8; bill from gape, 0°63. Bill, feet, and claws black ; irides 
dark brown; upper tail-coverts deep ferruginous, lower tail- 
coverts buff. P. caprata has been found as far west as the 
valley of the Atreck (Seebohm, P. Z. 8., 1879, p. 764). 
72.—Pratincola maura, Pallas. (483.) 
This species is common in Gilgit from the last week in 
March to the middle of May, and again from the first week 
in September to the beginning of November, It probably 
breeds in the district at high elevations. In seventeen spe- 
cimens the wings vary from 2°55 to 297 inches, and the tails 
from 1:93 to 2:3. The specimens mentioned by Captain Mar- 
shall with striated upper tail-coverts and rump are, I think, 
certainly not P. rubicola; the streaks referred to are much 
_less pronounced than in female P. rubicola, and apparently 
indicate a phase of plumage of the immature P. maura. 
* Asin the case of Syrnium nivicolum.—Eb., 8, F. 
