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Iris hair-brown ; maxilla brownish horn-colour, mandible 
whitish horn-colour ; legs fleshy brown. 
These specimens agree with Himalayan examples. 
(738) CaRPopacus ERYTHRINUS (Pall.). 
The scarlet Grosbeak is not very abundant in our district; 
but I found it occasionally in small parties in May and the 
early part of June, afterwards in pairs. A male shot at 
Shalofzan in the Kurrum valley was apparently breeding ; for 
the testes were much enlarged. 
(741) PRopassER RHODOCHLAMYS. 
Pyrrhula rhodochlamys, Brandt, Bulletin de VAcad. de 
St. Pétersbourg, 1843, p. 27. 
I only saw this species wpon one occasion, when I shot a 
male out of a pair in the pine-forest on the Peiwar range at 
8800 feet. 
The iris was light brown; bill greyish brown, mandible 
albescent; legs pinkish brown. 
(749) CARDUELIS CANICEPS. 
Carduelis eaniceps, Vigors, P. Z. 8. 1831, p. 28. 
Not uncommon. I have seen it associating with Meto- 
ponia pusilla. 
(751) Meroronta pusttta (Pallas). 
Plentiful m the Hariab district, and remained in flocks 
until the early part of June, when they commenced to breed. 
‘I found a nest on the Peiwar range, which was placed near 
the extremity of a deodar branch about four feet from the 
ground, it was composed of dried weeds and strips of bark, 
and lined with feathers and goat’s hair. Only one egg was 
in the nest, of a delicate bluish white, speckled at the thicker 
end with minute reddish-brown spots. 
(761) CaLANDRELLA BRACHYDACTYLA (Leisl.). 
In small parties until the end of May, after which time i 
did not observe them. 
(767) ALAUDA GULGULA. 
Alauda gulgula, Franklin, P. Z.S. 1831, p. 119. 
The Indian Sky-Lark was plentiful in the Hariab district, 
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