78 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



Dr. Henderson procured numerous specimens of this species, including a nestling, in 

 Ladak in July. Dr. Scully says that it was very common in August along the Sanju stream 

 and in the Karakash Valley at elevations of from 9000 to 14,000 feet. Colonel Biddulph also 

 collected a number of specimens near Kargil and Leh. 



156. Phylloscopus indicus. 



Phylloscopus indicus (Jerd.) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 59; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. m ; Scully t c 

 p. 449; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 404 (1889). ' ^> ' ' 



Ficedula obscura, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 65, 124 (1873). 



Lusciniola indica, Seebobm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 126 (1881). 



Phyllopneuste indica, Horaeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Yer. Wien, 1883, p. 84. 

 Nos. 391, 420. Mataian, August 14, 15, 1873. 

 No. 451. Chiliscamho, August 18, 1873. 

 No. 504. Kharbu, August 22, 1873. 

 Nos. 611, 615, 627, 637, 643. Leh, September 4-6, 1873. 

 Nos. 1654, 1657. Pasrobat, May 13, 1874. 

 No. 1665. Chehil Gumbar, May 14, 1874. 

 No. 1862. Duba, June 6, 1874. 



The young bird is more rufous than the adult, and the yellow is much more vivid below. 

 A young bird in autumn plumage was procured on the 19th of September. 



Dr. Stoliczka states that this species was not common near Pasrobat on the 13th of May, 

 and from Chehil Gumbar he writes :— " P. indicus prefers feeding about rocks instead of in 

 bushes, as Jerdon observes. It has a peculiar short shrill call." Again, from Duba he 

 observes :— " The call of P. indicus, which is common all along, is a deep whistling ' chip- 

 chip,' three or four times repeated. At first the call resembles that of a Kestref, and is 

 almost as loud." 



Colonel Biddulph writes :— ^^ We got a specimen at Leh in September ; we then found 

 it common in the valleys of Kizilyart Mountains, at elevations of from 9000-10,000 feet, in 

 May, on our return from the Pamir. We got it again at Ak-Musjid (5000 feet) in June."' 



157. Phylloscopus puscatus. 



Phylloscopus fuscatus (Blyth) ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 405 (1889). 

 Phyllopneuste fuscata,VT]^Y. in Eowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 171 (1877). 

 Lusciniola fuscata, Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 127 (1881). 



No. 816. Shahidula, October 19, 1873. 



No. 830. Nubra Valley, October 1873 {Dr. Bellew). 



158. Phylloscopus humii. 



Reguloides viridipennis (nee Blyth); Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 149 (1876). 



Phylloscopus humii (Brooks) ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 67, pi. iv. fig. 1 (1881) ; Gates, Faun. 



Brit, Ind., Birds, i. p. 410 (1889). 

 Tteguloides humii, Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. QQ; Scully, ibid. p. 449. 



No. 308. Sonamarg, August 10, 1873. ^ 



No. 320. Sonamarg, August 11, 1873.— Bill horny above, yellowish below ; feet greenish 

 horny, soles yellow. Length 4'6 inches, wing 2*1, tail 1*6, tarsus 0*75. 



