FURTHER NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF GILGIT. py 
but as a fact the following five sub-families are included in 
this volume, viz. :— 
(1) Brachypodine ... .. or Bulbuls ; 
(2) Troglodytine  .., ... or Wrens; 
(3) Mimine ae ... or Mocking Thrushes ; 
(4) Myiadectine ir ... or Solitaires, & ; 
(5) Ptilonorhyxchine ... or Bower Birds ; 
and there remain the Zimeline, and possibly some other sub- 
families to be dealt with in an ensuing volume. 
With the last three sub-families (two of which in my opi- 
nion are scarcely rightly here placed), we have no concern in 
India; even amongst the Troglodytine, the great majority 
of the genera are American, and Pnepyga and Cinclus are 
the principal genera with which we here have to do. Of the 
Brachypodine of course a very large proportion of the 
genera and species occur within our limits. 
itis gratifying to learn that the second volume of this family is 
well advanced, and that there is now a prospect of a somewhat 
more rapid progress in this work than has hitherto been 
found possible. The present race of ornithologists will doubt- 
less be gathered to their fathers before the catalogue is 
completed, but from what Dr. Giinther intimates in a brief 
preface which he prefixes to the present volume, our sons may 
now possibly witness its termination. This is good news, and 
we will hope that it may prove true. 
Of this present volume there is little to be said. It is charac- 
terized by the same completeness, and displays abundant 
evidence of the same industry and research that have been the 
leading features of every work of Mr. Sharpe’s since, as scarcely 
more than a boy, he gave to the world his Monograph of the 
Kingfishers. Some of the illustrations are decidedly good, while 
others again strike me as rather harsh, but all are a decided 
improvement on some that appeared in one at least of the earlier 
volumes. 
AS OLE 
Surther Hotes on the Birds of Gilgit. 
By Masor J. Brpputpa. 
Reprint from the “ Ibis.” 
Since the publication of my former paper on the Birds of 
Gilgit I have been again resident, from May 1880 till March 
1881, in that place, during which time I procured several 
species not previously obtained, either by Dr. Scully or myself. 
The summer of 1880 was marked by an unusual amount of bad 
weather—the monsoon, which, asa rule, is never felt so far 
