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131. Alauda raytal, Blyth. 

 Wastes of Ladakh ; common. 



132. Heterxjra sylvana (Hodg.). 



Common on the grassy hill-sides of the lesser ranges southwards 

 of the valley. Habits like the true Pipits. 



133. Accentor strophiatus, Hodg. 



Pretty common among the furze and brushwood in Ladakh, near 

 the Great Chimouraree Lake. Its call-note is very like that of the 

 Siskin, Chrysomitris spinus, and its nest and eggs are almost exactly 

 similar to those of the Emberiza citrinella (Linn.). 



134. Regultjs cristatus (Ray). 

 Pretty common in the forests of Cashmere. 



135. Troglodytes nipalensis, Hodg. 



Its favourite haunts are rocky mountain-sides on the high ranges 

 around the valley ; it is often seen at great elevations around the 

 sides of melting glaciers, in the secluded valleys of the Northern 

 Pinjal. 



136. Gallus ferruginexjs (Gmel.). 



Now and then met with in dense jungles on the lesser ranges 

 southward of Cashmere. 



137. Ceriornis MELA noceph ALA (Gray). 



A few are found on the tops of the Southern Pinjal range, among 

 the dense forests and jungles on their southern slopes ; not common. 

 Its call-note is usually heard at dusk or early morn, and is loud and 

 plaintive. 



138. Lophophorus impeyanus (Lath.). 



At high elevations on the Cashmere Mountains ; nowhere abun- 

 dant, but pretty generally distributed over the northern ranges. On 

 the Chor Mountain near Simla it is very common. 



139. Perdix hodgsoni^ (Gould), B. A. pt. ix. : Sacfa hodg- 

 sonicB, Hodg. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxv. p. 165. 



Science is indebted to Mr. Hodgson for the discovery of this 

 species ; but my friend Capt. Smith, 75th Regiment, in the summer 

 of 1853 shot a male specimen in Nobra, north of Ladakh, from 

 which the beautiful delineation in Mr. Gould's 'Birds of Asia' was 

 taken. Probably Nobra is the southern limit of this species on that 

 part of the Himalayas. 



140. Caccabis chukar (Gray). 



Pretty common on the bare mountain-sides of the lesser ranges 

 and mountains of Cashmere. It was seen now and then in Ladakh, 

 but is not common there. 



