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No. 547. Leh, August 27, 1873. 

 No. 564. Leh, August 28, 1873. 



Dr. Stoliczka says that this species was very common near Leh in August. Here Colonel 

 Biddulph also found great numbers of old and young birds in September. He says :»— '' We 

 used to see them picking at those excrescences so common on willow-leayes." 



Genus -flS GITH ALISCUS. 



132. iEaiTHALISCUS ertthrocephalus. 



JSgithaliscus erythrocephalus (Vig.) ; Gates, Eaiin. Brit.. Ind., Birds, i. p. 50 (1889). 

 No. 39. Murree, June 25, 1873. 



Genus ^GITHALUS. 



133. ^GiTHALus CORONATUS. (Plate VII.) 



jEgithalus coronatm, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 136> pi. 9. fig, 3 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 175.; 



Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 76 (1889). 

 JEgithalus stoliczM, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 521 (1874).. 



No, 941, c? ad. Bora, November 4, 1873.— Bill bluish horny ;, feet bluish ; iris^ blackish 



brown. Length 4 inches, wing 2, tail 1-7, tarsus 0*6. 

 Nos. 1219, 1233, adults. Maralbashi, January 1874. 



These specimens were identified by Dr. Severtzoffi himself as belonging to his species, 

 ^, coronatus. 



Colonel Biddulph writes : — " One or two specimens were shot somewhere near Kashghar 

 by Dr. Stoliczka. In the jungles about Maralbashi they were common. They were in 

 parties of a dozen, threading their way in and out of the bushes." 



Genus LEPTOPCECILE. 

 134. Leptopcecile sophi^e. (Plate VIII.) 



Leptopcecile sophice, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 66, 135, pi. viii. figs. 8> 9 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 171; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 153 (1876); Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 191 (1877); Bidd. 

 Ibis, 1881, p. 37; Scully, ibid. p. 567; Bidd. Ibis, 1882, p. 280; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. 

 p. 246 (1889). 



Stoliczkana stoliczk(Sy Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 513 (1874). 



Nos. 814, 817, 821. Shahidula, October 19, 1873. 



No. 858, d . Gidjik, October 24, 1873.— Bill black ; feet horny blackish brown ; iris 



bright red. Length 4-6 inches, wing 2*1, tail 2*15, tarsus 0*72. 

 No. 859, 2 ad. Gidjik, October 24, 1873. 

 Nos. 871, 872, 873. Tarn, October 25, 1873. 

 Nos. 1408, 1410, d . Akdarra (Aktala), March 22, 1874. 



Colonel Biddulph sends us the following note :— " We met with this species on our way 

 to Yarkand, in the Karakash Valley, at elevations of from 11,000 to 14,000 feet. There are 



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