A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF GILGIT. ES 
S. tsabellina is 4 to Zinch. This does not at all accord with 
my experience. In sixteen specimens of this species now 
before me, the length of the black tip on the lateral tail-feathers 
varies from 0-9 to 1:05 inch. Mr. Blanford, in the passage 
above cited, seems to have confounded female Sazicola e@nanthe 
with S. zsabellina. I should say that in the former species the 
black tip to the outer rectrices does not exceed 2 of an inch, 
while S. isabellina always has more than 3 of an inch of black 
at the end of the lateral tail-feathers. 
80.—Saxicola cenanthe, Zin. (491 a.) 
This Wheatear passes Gilgit on migration, and is found 
there in small numbers from the 20th of March to the 22nd 
April, I did not secure any specimens of this species during 
the autumn migration. Gilgit examples have the wings 3:7 
to 3-9 inches, and the amount of black on the lateral tail- 
feathers varies from 0:6 to 0°7; they do not seem to be sepa- 
rable from European examples of S. enanthe with which I have 
compared them. 
82.—Ruticilla rufiventris, Vietl?. (497.) 
_ This Redstart passes Gilgit on migration, being common 
in April and May, on its way northwards, and passing down 
again late in September. Out of fourteen males procured 
in spring no less than six were in the plumage of the female, 
84.—Ruticilla erythronota, Zversm. (498 bis.) 
This Redstart is a winter visitor to Gilgit, and is common 
at an elevation of 5,000 feet from the middle of October to 
the first week in March. In eleven males the wings vary in 
length from 3:4 to 3°6, and in five females from 3:3 to 3°35, 
The females have two whitish wing-bars formed by the pale 
tips of the coverts. 
Rk. alaschanica, Prjevalsky, which is allied to this species 
by its chestnut back and wing-markings, appears, nevertheless, 
to be quite distinct. . erythronota, male, has a broad band, 
comprising the lores, ear-coverts, and sides of neck, black ; 
while in 2. alaschanica these parts are grey, like the head and 
nape. In J. erythronota the second primary is intermediate 
in length between the seventh and eighth, but nearer to the 
seventh; in &. alaschanica the second primary is equal to the 
eighth. The females of the two species are probably very 
similar in colour, but the difference in shape of wing will 
doubtless help to distinguish them. 
