NOTES ON BIRDS COLLECTED BY DOCTOR W. L. ABBOTT 

 IN CEETKAL ASIA. 



By Harry C. Oberholsek, 



Assistant Biologist, Department of Agriculture. 



Dr. Abbott's earliest collections of birds from Cashmere aud Ladak 

 Lave already been fully treated by Dr. C. W. Richmond.^ Upon leav- 

 ing Madagascar, in 1895, Dr. Abbott proceeded again to Cashmere, 

 where he spent tbe remainder of the year — some four months — mostly 

 in places previously visited. Again, in 1897, he was there for a month 

 or so from about the middle of October, having come from Ladak, in 

 wbich latter region, at various localities, he had been collecting since 

 the middle of June. 



As the ornithological results of these later visits to Central Asia, the 

 United States National Museum has duly received two consignuients 

 of specimens; and at the request of the curator of the division of birds 

 a list of them is here presented. Although these collections number 

 together only 142 specimens, representing 62 species, they comprise 

 several birds of considerable interest and a number not previously 

 obtained by Dr. Abbott. All matter within quotation marks is to be 

 credited to the collector. 



The writer is under obligation to Dr. Richmond for his uniform 

 courtesy during the preparation of this paper, as well as for permission 

 to make use of his notes upon several of the larger species. 



Family LARID^. 



LARUS BRUNNEICEPHALUS Jerdon. 



Larus irunneicephalus Jerdon, Madras Journ., XII, 1840, p. 25. 

 Two adult females in somewhat worn breeding plumage, from Tsokr 

 Cliumo Lake, Ladak, at 15,000 feet altitude, July 13, 1897. "Iris pale 

 greenish 5 orbital skin red; feet red ; bill dark red. Length, 16§ inches. 

 A colony of 15 or 20 individuals at this lake. Nests not found." 



' Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVIII, 1896, pp. 451-503. 



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