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A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF GILGIT. 125 
I have shot specimens of this Accentor in orchards, where 
they were running about on the sward near rose-bushes; 
when alarmed in such situations they occasionally seek shelter 
on the lower branches of small fruit-trees. 
133.—Accentor fulvescens, Severtzoff. (655 ter.) 
This species is a winter visitor to Gilgit, and is common 
there from the first week in October to the third week in 
March; it comes to us from the north. I have now forty- 
five specimens of this Accentor; and I have no hesitation in 
saying that it is a good species, thoroughly distinct from 
Accentor montanellus, Pallas, with which Mr. Dresser confounds 
it. Gilgit examples are identical with Turkestan specimens 
named by M. Severtzoff, and with birds collected by myself 
in Eastern Turkestan. The differences between 4. montanellus 
and A. fulvescens are carefully pointed out by Col. Prjevalsky 
(Rowley’s Orn. Miscl., Vol. II., p. 186). 
134.—Corvus corone, Zin, (659.) 
This Crow appears to be rare in Gilgit. I procured only a pair, 
one bird on the 22nd May and the other on the 2nd October, 
both being adult. The male measured in the flesh :—Length, 
21:5 inches; wing, 13°4; tail, 8°65; tarsus, 2°6; culmen, 2°3; 
depth of closed bill at nostrils, 0°75. And the female :—Length, 
20°4; wing, 13'1; tail, 8°2; tarsus, 2-4; culmen, 2:2; depth 
of closed bill at nostrils, 0°7. The outermost tail-feathers are 
1:2 shorter than the middle ones. The specimens agree per- 
fectly with a series of the European C. corone with which I 
have compared them. They are sharply distinguished from 
C. levaillanti by having a much smaller bill, by the throat- 
hackles extending further down towards the breast (these 
feathers being large and glossed purple in @. corone, smaller 
and green-coloured in C. levaillanti), and by the whole lower 
surface and hind neck being glossed with purple, while in 
C. levaillanti these parts have a greenish steel gloss. 
135.—Corvus cornix, Zin. (659 dis.) 
A winter visitor only, and fairly common in the valleys 
from the middle of November to the third week in March. 
All the specimens secured are thoroughbred C. cornix, not 
showing any signs of interbreeding witb C. corone or any 
other stranger. The Gilgit birds are paler than European 
examples, but do not otherwise differ. 
