102 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, fol. XXVII. 



smaller in size (wing of male 87-91), with the rosy superciliary 

 plumes meeting over the forehead, with a heavier beak, and a 

 brighter tint of rose colour on the upper parts. 



The restricted range of C. rh. grandis is given by Hartert. (Vog. 

 P. F. P. 101.) as from Pushut in N. E. Afghanistan and the 

 Karakorum Mountains, Kashmere, and the Himalayas to Kumaon. 

 There appears however to be but little on record regarding this 

 race and of records of interest to Punjab ornithologists 1 only find 

 the following: — Jerdon (B.I. i.i. 401) says that it has been 

 obtained in the Tyne range of Mountains between Simla and Mus- 

 soorJe, and in the Pubher valley, near the snow, on the Simla side 

 by Hutton. 



Later Hume writes (Lahore to Yarkand. 259.) '' This species is 

 only a winter visitant to the British Himalayas. At that season it 

 is not very uncommon, and one or two specimens are to be found 

 in every collection made during the cold weather near Darjeeling, 

 Almora, Massoorie, Simla and Murree." 



The British Museum Catalogue shows the following specimens 

 from the Hume collection : — 



2 specimens from Kotegarh near Simla. 

 9 Pumlahie 17 November 1869. 

 $ Baja in Kunaitee 1st January 1871. 

 S $ Simla November 1880. 



One Simla 1st December 1880. 



(S near Ohamba. 



The late Captain C. H. T. Whitehead obtained a female^on 

 December 15th, below Sardi in the Salt Eange (Jhelum district) 

 as he duly recorded in the Journal. 



Mr. A. E. Jones has kindly sent me an adult male which he 

 obtained with two others at Ohhoi near Campellpore on 27th 

 December 1918, remarking that although the species was fairly 

 common adult males were scarce. 



I had hardly expected to meet this bird on this trip and was 

 somewhat surprised on November 9th to find a few associating with 

 Meadow Buntings about 8,500 feet on the ridge above Kufri. After 

 that I discovered that there were a -small number about the entire 

 ridge above 8,000 feet between Kufri and Fagoo, but none were 

 actually identified after November 20th. They were met with 

 singly or in small parties in any type of ground or cover, and the 

 call note was a curious '' Sqwee."' 



A small series of 2 adult males, 3 immature males and 2 females were 

 collected. Their measurements are as follows : — 



No. Description. Bill from skull. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



2893. Adult male (rose plumage) 

 2940. a. „ „ „ 



2894. Male (1st winter plumage) 

 :^87o. „ 

 :2874. „ 

 2899. Female (probably 1st winter).. 



•2900. 



No specimen shows any sign of moult, but I should judge from 

 the appearance of the feathers that whereas the two adult males 

 had moulted rectrices and remiges at the recent autumn moult, 

 the other birds had not done so. 



