A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF GILGIT. 125 
Had this portion of our territories been worked, we should 
have secured this bird long before M. Severtzoff, who has so 
accurately described it. The following are measurements of 
an adult pair of ZL. sophie, shot in the Gilgit district in 
January at an elevation of about 5,500 feet :—Male.—Wing, 
2:02 inches ; tail, 2°13; tarsus, 0°75; culmen, 0°4. Female.— 
Wing, 2 inches; tail, 2°1; tarsus, 0°74; culmen, 0:4. The 
outermost tail-feather, 0°4 shorter than the uropygials; 
exposed portion of first primary, 0°65; fourth, fifth, and sixth 
primaries equal and longest; third primary equal to seventh 
in length. 
125.—Aigithaliscus leucogenys, Moore. (634 bis.) 
This species is a permanent resident in the district, but is 
very local. I only found it along the course of the main 
valley above Gilgit, in a tract about sixteen miles in length, 
from Bargo to Singal, at elevations of from 5,500 to 7,000 
feet ; there it was fairly common in summer and winter in the 
forests and among the tamarisk bushes along the banks of 
the river. 
In the adult the bill is black; irides pale creamy or white ; 
feet pale orange ; claws dusky or brown. The young are out 
of the nest by the middle of May. In a young bird, obtained 
on the 19th of that month, the stripe down the throat is pale 
pinkish, with dusky bases to the feathers; the head is paler 
than in the adult; the wing-feathers are margined on the 
outer webs with pale rufous, and the flanks and abdomen are 
buff. In more advanced birds the throat-stripe is dusky. 
126.—Parus melanolophus, Vig. (638.) 
Confined to the pine forests from 7,000 to 12,000 feet. The 
sexes are alike, the female only averaging slightly smaller 
than the male. In fresh specimens the tarsi and toes are 
always a bluish leaden colour. 
127.—Parus rufonuchalis, Blyth. (640.) 
This Tit is also a denizen of the pine forests, where it 
breeds ; but it is occasionally found low down in the main 
valleys after heavy weather; thus I shot a specimen in Gilgit 
itself (4,900 feet) on the 21st April. A young bird, obtained 
on the 20th July at an elevation of 9,000 feet, has the parts 
that are velvet-black in the adult replaced by dull sooty, the 
back and abdomen are suffused with olive-colour, and the 
axillaries and under tail-coverts are pale buff. 
