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No. 635. Leh, September 5, 1873. 



A young bird in Ml moult into its first winter plumage, which evidently resembles 



the immature plumage, but is much more rufescent, all the edges of the wing-coverts 



and tail-feathers being tawny buff. 

 No. 651. North of Leh, 13,000 feet, September 8, 1873. 



Colonel Biddulph's specimens were collected between the 16th of May and the 30th of 

 June at Digar, Kaskasu, and Leh. He writes :—" We first saw it about the Pota-la. On 

 our return from Wakhan we noticed a few individuals on the passes between Sarikol and 

 Turkestan. We also found it on both sides of the Diga-la in June, and it was very common 

 all about Leh." 



Dr. Henderson says that this species was met with in June about Kharbu in Ladak ; all 

 the specimens then obtained had black bills. Eeturning in October it was observed in large 

 flocks at the same locality, and all the specimens then procured had yellow bills. They 

 occurred at a height of about 13,000 feet at the Pota Pass. 



Dr. Scully says : — '' This Pinch was met with on the return journey on the Chuchu Pass, 

 at an elevation of 11,700 feet. Purther on, in the hills of Pastern Turkestan, it was seen in 

 suitable localities, but at heights of about 14,000 feet and above it seems to be entirely 

 replaced by M. hcematopygia,^^ 



On the 21st of August, Dr. Stoliczka writes in his 'Diary ' \—'' Going up the Namika-la 

 the oaly bird was Montlf ring ilia adamsi. Biddulph and I shot several ; they were in 

 flocks, feeding and running on the ground like Larks, rising somewhat similarly with a loud 

 chirp." 



63. MONTIFEINGILLA ALPICOLA. 



Passer alpicola, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 20 (1811). 

 Montifringilla nivalis (nee L.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 75 (1873). 

 Montlf ringilla fringilloides, Boie; Dresser, Ibis^ 1875, p. 242. 



Montifringilla alpicolajBlauL East. Persia, ii. p. 248 (1876) ; Seeb. Ibis, 1883, p. 10; Severtz. t. c. p. 60 ; 

 Hadde, Ornis, iii. p. 480 (1887) ; Sbarpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 260 (1888). 



No. 1668. Kaskasu Pass, May 15, 1874. — Length 7 inches, wing 4*7, tail 3, tarsus 0*95 ; 

 expanse 13-7; bill from front 0*52, from gape 0*63; length of foot 1*4. Iris light 

 hazel-brown ; bill black ; feet blackish brown. Middle toe 0-8 inch, hind toe 0-6; 

 wings reach within 0*5 inch of end of tail. 



Nos. 1669-1672. Kaskasu Pass, May 15, 1874. 



In Dr. Stoliczka's 'Diary' he writes that he had observed this same " white Montifringilla 

 on the Turgat Pass, north of Chakmak." The occurrence here recorded extends the known 

 range of the species considerably to the eastward. 



64. MONTirHINGILLA SORDIDA. 



Fringillauda sordida, Stoliczka, J. A. S. Beng. xxxvii. p. 63 (1868) ; Scully^ Str. F. iv. p. 172 (1876) ; 



Biddulpli, Ibis, 1881, p. 88; Scully, ibid. p. 579; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, 



p. 89 ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 248 (1890). 

 Fringillauda nemoricola (nee Hodgs.) ; Hume & Henderson, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 264 (1873). 

 Passer pulverulentus, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 64, 116 (1873). 

 Montifringilla sordida, Sliarpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 266 (1888) . 

 Fringillauda altaica, Eversm. ; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 60. 



