NO. 1195. BIRDS FROM CENTEAL ASIA— OBEBROLSEB. 227 



PERISSOSPIZAi ICTERIOIDES (Vigors). 



Coccothraustes icterioides Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soo. Lond., 1830, p. 8. 

 Fyenorhamphus icteroides Hume, Nests and Eggs Indian Birds, 1874, p. 469. 



One adult male in perfect plumage, from Sind Valley, Cashmere, at 

 6,000 feet. "Iris hair brown; feet fleshy pink; claws horny brown; 

 bill green, slightly yellowish. Length, 9J inches." 



The generic term Pycnorliamplius Hume,- commonly applied to this 

 and two allied species, is preoccupied by Pictioramphus Eosenberg,^ a 

 synomym of Sphecothera Vieillot,^ the difference in the spelling of the 

 two names being simply one of transliteration. Since for Fyenorham- 

 phus there is no other name available, it maybe called as above — Peris- 

 sospiza, from rrepKjffos, mirabilis, and ffTtiCa, fringilla. The remaining 

 species of this genus will consequently stand as Perissospiza affinis 

 (Blyth) and Perissospiza earneipes (Hodgson). 



Family HIRUNDINID^. 



PTYONOPROGNE RUPESTRIS (Scopoli) . 



Hirwndo rupestris Scopoli, Ann. I. Hist. Nat., 1769, p. 167. 



Piijonoprogne rupestris Reichenbach, Syst. Av., 1850, pi. Lxxxvii, fig. 6. 



One specimen, June 29, 1897, from Spittak, Indus Valley, Ladak, at 

 10,000 feet. "Feet pale brownish fleshy; iris blackish brown; claws 

 horn brown ; bill dull black." With a fair series of both Asiatic and 

 European specimens at hand, no difference worthy of subspecific recog- 

 nition is apparent. 



The generic term Bihlis,^ commonly applied to the crag martins when 

 they are distinguished from Riparla ( = CoUle), is ineligible for use in 

 this connection, being preoccupied in Lepidoptera by Bihlis Fabricius.*^ 

 The next available name is Ptyonoprogne Eeichenbach,' which should 

 therefore stand as the proper designation of the group. 



DELICHON CASHMERIENSIS (Gould). 

 Chelidon cashmeriensis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, p. 356. 



Two specimens, taken July 4, 1897, at dpshi, Indus Valley, Ladak, 

 11,000 feet. "Iris dark brown; claws horn brown; bill black." Dr. 

 Abbott notes that one of these examples belonged to a large colony 

 which was nesting in a bluff of conglomerate on the banks of the Indus. 



As Dr. Reichenow has already demonstrated,** the generic term Gheli- 



'New name for Pycnorliamplius. 



2 Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, 1874, p. 469. 



3 Batavia Natur. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind., XXIX, 1866, p. 143. 



^Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXXII, 1819, p. 5. 



5 Lesson, Compl. Buff., VIII, 1837, p. 495. 



6 lUiger's Mag., VII, 1807, p. 281. 



^ Syst. Av., 1850, pi. lxxxvii, fig. 6. 

 8 Journ. f. Oru., 1889, p. 187. 



