FURTHER NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF GILGIT. 269 
common in July and October. A male measures :—Length, 
3°75 inches ; wing, 2°12; tail, 1:3; tarsus, 0°62. The female is 
slightly smaller. 
105 a.—Sylvia jerdoni, Blyth. (581.) 
I somehow overlooked this species in my former list of the 
Gilgit birds. I procured two specimens, a male, on 6th Sep- 
tember, in immature plumage, and a female, on 11th June, in 
full plumage with black cap. The irides of both were pale 
yellow. 
106.—Sylvia affinis, Blyth. (582.) 
107.—Sylvia althea, Hume. (582 ter.) 
Out of thirty-two specimens six are of the S. althea type, 
thirteen of the S. affinis type, and the rest are of intermediate 
forms. From Iskardo and Ladakh I have specimens of 
S. alihea, and from Darel of S. affinis. 
109.—Henicurus scouleri, Vigors. (587.) 
Two young males, shot on 12th September, at 11,000 feet 
elevation, have the throat and breast white, sullied with 
dusky markings, and the forehead black. A female, shot on 
the 23rd September, at 9,000 feet, has the throat black, with 
a few white feathers showing on the chin, and the forehead 
partly white. The change of colour on the breast appears to 
be due to a change in the colouring of the feathers, but on 
the forehead to a moult of feathers, as small white feathers 
can be discerned growing under the black feathers on the fore- 
heads of the two younger specimens. 
112.—Motacilla alba, Lin. (591 ter.) 
I obtained two specimens in February, and two in Decem- 
ber. Two young birds of the year, shot in September, 
show a considerable amount of yellow about the face and 
neck, 
116.—Budytes calcaratus, Hodgs. (594.) 
I procured specimens from Darel and Deosai in July, and 
from the Shandur plateau in August. 
117.—Budytes citreolus, Pall. (594 dis.) 
I got two specimens, in Gilgit, on the 3rd and 4th August. 
T also got specimens from Darel and Deosai in July. 
It is somewhat strange that, out of over 200 specimens of 
Green Wagtails, neither Dr. Scully nor myself procured a 
single specimen of B. flavus, Lin., which species I obtained 
in Wahkan in April 1874. 
