260 FURTHER NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF GILGIT. 
adult bird. Owing to the difficulty of transport, I left this 
and a fine specimen of A. chrysaetos behind me. 
9 a.—Cerchneis vespertina, Lin. (19.) 
A single specimen, a young male in immature plumage, was 
obtained in October. Length, 11°25 inches ; wing, 8°8 ; tail, 5:1 ; 
tarsus, 1:12, Irides light brown; legs and cere orange; claws 
paler. I have compared this specimen with those of C. amu- 
gensis and C.vespertina in Mr. Seebohm’s collection, and have 
no doubt of its identity with the latter species, though the 
immature specimens are difficult to discriminate. 
12.—Accipiter nisus, Lin. (24.) 
Out of twenty-one Sparrow Hawks from Gilgit Mr. Sharpe 
identifies only thirteen as true A. nisus, the rest apparently 
belonging to the larger race which I have called A. melas- 
chistus of Hume. 
18.—Buteo plumipes, Hodgs. (47.) 
I obtained a male in the rufous stage of plumage from the 
Deosai plain. 
29.—Scops brucii, Hume. (74 sept.) 
A fine specimen was brought to me alive, but numbed with 
cold, after some bad weather in the beginning of July. 
33.—Chelidon cashmirensis, Gould. (93.) 
33 a.—Chelidon urbica, Lin, (92.) 
During the time of our being in Gilgit together, Dr. Scully 
and myself failed to notice that we had more than one House- 
Martin, and while he only obtained C. urbica, I only ob- 
tained C. cashmirensis. 
In the beginning of July 1880 the weather, after being 
intensely hot, suddenly changed, and for four days rain fell 
on the neighbouring hills, ending in heavy snow during the 
night of the fourth day, when the thermometer in Gilgit fell 
to 45° Fahr. 
The following morning a number of Martins were picked 
up, either dead or so numbed with cold as to be unable to 
move; and I then observed that there were two kinds. Of 
a dozen brought to me five proved to be C. urdica, and the 
remaining seven C. cashmirensis, all adults. 
A male of C. urbica measures: Length, 5°8 inches ; wing, 4°6 ; 
tail, 2°75 ; tarsus, 0°'4. A female measures: Length, 5:9; wing, 
4°36; tail, 2°75 ; tarsus, 0°45. 
