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at Jhelum in the Punjab, and made tlie following re- 

 marks : — 



" This race^ which is remarkahle for the head, cheeks, 

 ear-coverts, and chin being pure white, was described in 

 1887 by Przewalski (Zapiski Iniper. Akad. Nauk. St. Peters- 

 burg, Iv. 1887, p. 85, and noticed in ' The Ibis' for 1887, 

 p. 409) from specimens obtained during the spring migra- 

 tion on the River Irtisch and in the southern Altai, Dzun- 

 garia. Apparently no other specimens have been obtained 

 until this single bird was procured over 1000 miles south- 

 west of the type-locality. The breeding-quarters and winter- 

 quarters of M. f. leucocephala are unknown. The bird 

 secured was probably only a straggler to the Punjab, as 

 Mr. Whistler, who has always kept a sharp look out for 

 Wagtails, tells me it was the only one of its kind seen, and 

 •was on migration in company with many M. f. beema Sykes. 

 The breeding-quarters are doubtless further north than the 

 Altai Range, and are perhaps in the valleys at the source of 

 the River Yenesei. I have not been able to compare this 

 bird with the type, but Dr. Hartert, who has kindly ex- 

 amined the specimen, tells me it corresponds exactly with 

 the plate given in ' Aves Przewalskiana,' i. pi. x. figs. 3 & 4. 

 Since only a few specimens are known, the question natur- 

 ally arises whether this is not an aberration? I think it is 

 not : firstly, Przewalski apparently obtained more than one 

 specimen in the same district, and, secondly, the white of the 

 head does not look to me like albinism, as it shades off into 

 the grey of the neck. I exhibit for comparison males in 

 similar plumage of Motacilla f. flava, M.f. beema, M.f. raiiy 

 M. f. thunbergi, and M. f. melanogriseus." 



Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker exhibited specimens of a ne^r 

 subspecies of La'iscopus obtained in Garhwal by Mr. S. L. 

 Whymper in 1910, and made the following comments : — 



"This new subspecies is most nearly allied to La'iscopus 

 collaris nepalensis, but can be distinguished at a glance from 

 that bird by the general tone of its plumage being more 

 rufous. 



