FURTHER NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF GILGIT. 259 
Stray Featuers during the last few years. Punjab orni- 
thologists will probably find themselves well repaid by a 
careful collection of species during the months of October, 
November, December, and January at Derbund, where the 
Indus emerges from the Himalayas into the plains of the 
Punjab. 
The Indian Government having decided against the further 
retention of a British officer at Gilgit for the present, it will 
probably be some time before any further continuous orni- 
thological observations at that spot can be made, though 
many sportsmen will no doubt find their way up to so good 
a sporting localitv. Up tothe time of my departure I con- 
tinued to add new species to the list, which now comprises 
265 species. Of this number only one, the Owl named after 
me by Dr. Scully, is new to science. Five are of doubtful iden- 
tification, no specimen having been secured, though in each 
instance there is no doubt that a species not otherwise re- 
corded in the list was observed. These are Vultur monachus, 
Neophron percnopterus, Corvus umbrinus, Branta rufina, and 
Mergus castor. ‘The absolute identification of Gyps fulvescens 
must also remain undecided, for reasons hereafter stated. 
My identifications of Corvus culminatus and Columba livia may 
also be accepted with hesitation, as also the specific distinc- 
tion of Corvus collaris. Without taking these into account, 
twenty-one species, not previously recorded, or of doubtful 
occurrence, in India, according to Mr. Hume’s list of Ist 
March 1879, must now be added to the number of our Indian 
species. They are Cerchneis vespertina, Lanius homeyeri, 
Laniwus pheénicuroides, Turdus hyemalis?, Saaicola vittata, 
Sasicola enanthe, Leptopacile sophie, Accentor fulvescens, 
Sturnus purpurascens, Petronia stulta, Emberiza hortulana, 
Erythrospiza incarnata, Propasser blythi, Linaria cannabina, 
fringilla montifringilla, Leucosticte brandti, Turtur aurita, 
Ligialitis hiaticula, igialitis jerdoni, Tringa acuminata, and 
Crex pratensis. The occurrence of Hydrobata leucogaster 
within Indian limits, though not ineluded in the Gilgit list, is 
also recorded for the first time. 
1.—Vultur monachus, Zin. (1.)* 
I may have been wrong in my identification of those birds ; 
but they were certainly not the young of Gyps himalayensis 
They were a pair of adult birds of a totally different species. 
2.—Gyps fulvescens, Hume. (3 dis.) 
I regret that I did not bring this specimen home for com- 
parison. To the best of my recollection, however, it was an 
* I have added our catalogue numbers as usual.—ED., 8. F, 
