116 A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF GILGIT. 
85.—Ruticilla erythrogastra, Gii/d. (499.) 
A winter visitor, and common at an elevation of about 
5,000 feet, from the middle of October to the middle of April. 
The males in autumn have the head bluish white; in January 
and February the cap becomes whiter, and is pure white in 
the latest-killed April birds. In fifteen males the wings 
measured from 3°95 to 4°25 inches, and eleven females have the 
wings 3°7 to 41. 
Major Biddulph mentions a specimen of which the sex is 
doubtful ; but there should never be any doubt about the sexes 
in this species, as the young male, even in first plumage, has 
a large snow-white patch on the wing, which is never seen in 
the female. 
86.—Ruticilla frontalis, Vigors. (503.) 
Not uncommon at an elevation of 5,000 feet on first 
arrival in April, The female of this handsome species may 
be readily distinguished from the other brown-coloured hens 
of the genus by the black band, nearly half an inch deep, 
on the tips of the lateral tail-feathers. Male—Length, 6°4 
inches; wing, 3°53; tail,3; tarsus, 0°94; bill from gape, 0-7. 
Female.—Length, 6; wing, 3:15; tail, 2:7; tarsus, 0°8 ; bill 
from gape, 0°65. 
87.—Ruticilla ceruleocephala, Vigors. (504.) 
Common in the forests from the third week in March to 
the end of September. In the immature spotted p!umage 
the males can be readily distinguished from the females by 
the former having snow-white outer margins to the inner 
secondaries. 
88.—Ruticilla leucocephala, Vigors. (506.) 
There does not seem to be any variation in the plumage of 
this species due to season. Six males have the wings 3°75 to 
4 inches; tail, 8:°2 to 3:26; and bill from gape, 0°78 to 0°8. 
A female measures :— Wing, 3°4 ; tail, 2°9 ; bill from gape, 0°7. 
One of the male birds has a single chestnut feather on the 
black nape. 
89.—Tarsiger rufilatus, Hodgs. (508.) 
Nemura rufilata. Hodgson, P. Z. 8., 1845, p. D7. 
A summer visitor, and breeds in the pine-forests at an 
elevation of about 10,000 feet. This species is quite distinct 
from 7, cyanurus, Pallas, under which name it is entered in 
Major Biddulph’s list. In the male of 7. cyanurus the lores 
