278 FURTHER NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF GILGIT. 
the tips of the secondaries are edged with white, forming a 
band, but in L. ichthyaetus not only the tips, but both edges 
of the secondaries are distinctly margined with white for a long 
way up each feather. Again in L. ichthyaetus the tail pre- 
sents a broad uniform dark band (only the outer feathers being 
edged with white), whereas in L. affinis, &c., the tail is mottled 
with dark markings, and the band is completely broken up. 
Other points of difference exist, but to describe them would 
only be confusing, as the above are ample for recognition. 
“T have not as yet been able to examine a young bird of 
the same year as that in which it was hatched, when the 
plumage is fresh. Another “ link” which is missing is the stage 
between the following April, when the mantle is mainly grey, 
but the wings and tail are brown, and the spring after that, 
when the mantle is wholly grey, but there are still some 
brown mottlings on the carpals and primary coverts and a 
little dark on the tail; the black hood is then assumed for the 
first time. 
L. ichthyaetus must, therefore, be substituted for Z. affinis 
in the list of Gilgit birds. 
246.—Gelochelidon anglica, Wont. (983.) 
I secured an adult male passing through on Ist August ; 
the black of the head is changing to the winter stage of 
plumage. Two days later I secured a young bird of the year; 
the head is white, marked with brown streaks, and the whole 
back is smeared with brown. 
