64 SECOND YAEKAND MISSION. 



No. 1107. Yangihissar, December 2, 1873. 



Dr. Stoliczka mentions that this species remains during the winter near Yangihissar, and 

 he found it breeding in the Duba Valley in June. 



Dr. Henderson states that this species was seen almost daily from near Birnbur riffht 

 through Kashmir and Ladak to beyond Leh ; but it never occurred after leaving the Pangong 

 Lake. On the return journey the bird had commenced finding its way down to those portions 

 of the plains which lie near the foot of the hills, and on the day of his return he killed a 

 specimen at Lahore. 



Dr. Scully writes : — " This species was not noticed in the plains, and was first met with 

 in the hills in September. At Tadlik, below the Kirghiz encampment at Kichik Yailak, I 

 saw two of these birds, one of which I shot. They flew from the bank of the stream to the 

 hillside, up which they ran pretty nimbly." 



Colonel Biddulph has sent us the accompanying note : — " I first saw this near the Pota- 

 la ; there were a good many near Tanksi on the rocks overhanging the river, and they were 

 very common throughout the plains, on rocks and even on low walls alongside of the roads 

 and houses. I did not, however, see the species at Maralbashi, and I never noticed it out of 

 the plains ; but it was still about these when we returned in May." 



Family SITTIDiE. 



Genus SITTA. 



124. SiTTA KASHMIHENSIS. 



Sitta cashmirensis, Brooks, J. A. S. Beng. xli. part 2, p. 75. 



Sitta kashmirensis, Brooks; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 303 (1889). 



No. 299. Sonamarg, August 10, 1873.— Length 5*25 inches, wing 32, tail 1-62, tarsus 0*75; 



expanse 9*5 ; bill from front 0-6, from gape 082 ; length of foot 1-05. Iris very dark 



brown ; bill blackish, horny above ; feet bluish leaden. 

 Nos. 304, 305. Sonamarg, August 10, 1873. 

 No. 349. Sonamarg, August 12, 1873. 

 No. 372. Baltal, August 12, 1873. 



125. SiTTA LEUCOPSIS. 



Sitta leucopsis, Gould ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 181 (1873) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 50; Scully, 

 t. c. p. 431 ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 306 (1889). 



No. 82. Murree, July 2, 1873. 



According to Dr. Henderson this Nuthatch was only met with by him in the Upper Sind 

 Valley, Kashmir. Here it was not uncommon, but it so persistently affected the tops of the 

 loftiest trees that very few specimens were obtained. 



