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Common about villages and cultivation [Gya]; common throughout 

 Eupshu up to 16,000 and 17,000 feet. It comes picking around the 

 camps and sheepfolds of the Ohampas." These examples are identical 

 with others from Cashmere and the Thian Shan Mountains previously 

 obtained by Dr. Abbott, and recorded by Dr. Eichmond as true 

 rupestris.^ They are, however, undoubtedly referable to Columha r. 

 pallida, exhibiting all the characteristics of that race. 



TURTUR SURATENSIS (Gmelin). 



Columha suratensis Gmelin, Sj^st. Nat., I, 1788, p. 778. 



Turtur suratensis Strickland, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1842, p. 168. 



One adult male, from the Yalley of Cashmere. "Iris dull red; bill 

 black; feet livid purple; length, 11| inches." 



Family VULTUEID^. 



GYPS HIMALAYENSIS Hume 

 Gyjys Mmalayensis Hume, Eongh Notes, I, 1869, p. 14. 



Two specimens accompanied by the following data. 



" Male, Lolab, Cashmere, November 3, 1895; 8,000 feet. Iris mottled 

 brownish gray ; bill pale greenish horn ; cere dark gray horn ; bare skin 

 on throat pale blue; feet pale greenish; claws blackish. Length, 46^ 

 inches; extent, 110 inches; weight, 21 pounds." 



" Female, Sind Valley, Cashmere, December 13, 1895; 6,000 feet. Iris 

 dark brown; bill pale greenish horny (like jade); cere horny blackish 

 brown; bare skin of head pale blue; feet pale greenish slate color; 

 claws black. Length, 46 inches; extent, 107 inches; weight, 19 

 pounds." 



The male seems to be adult, although the crop patch is quite dark 

 brown instead of whitish fawn color; the female, judging from the 

 darker colors on the upper i3arts, appears to be more or less immature. 



Family FALCONID^. 

 CERCHNEIS TINNUNCULA INTERSTINCTA (McClelland). 

 Falco intersfinctus McClelland, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839, p. 154. 



Two adult males of this handsome falcon : one from Zogila Pass, 

 Cashmere, at 10,500 feet; the other from Machalung, Indus Valley, 

 Ladak. The latter specimen is a bird in process of molt (September 

 17). "Its stomach contained lizards." 



Specimens of the kestrel from Cashmere and Ladak are much darker, 

 particularly above, than those from Europe, and should apparently bear 

 the subspecific name interstinctaMcCleUaud. This race was originally 

 described from specimens obtained in Assam, and it undoubtedly occu- 



1 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVIII, 1896, p. 587. 



