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Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 85; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 70; Zarudn. Ois. 

 Transcasp. p. 39 (1885). 

 Pratincola maura (Pall.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 188 (1879) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, 

 p. 55 ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 61 (1890). 



Nos. 44, 47, 6 2 ad. Murree, June 26, 1873. 



No. 75, d ad. Murree, July 2, 1873. 



Nos. 98-101, c5^ 2 ad. et juv. Cbaugligally, July 6, 1873. 



No. 201, juv. Srinagar, July 29, 1873. 



Nos. 272, 274, c^ ad. Kangan, August 7, 1873. 



No. 280, juv. Gond, August 8, 1873. 



No. 377, 6 ad. Sonamarg, August 12, 1873. 



Nos. 1492, 1494, c? S ad. Panjah, April 14-23, 1873. 



No. 1675, d ad. Ighiz Tar, May 18, 1874. 



Colonel Biddulph procured a pair at Panjah on the 21st of April. On the l7th, Dr. 

 Stoliczka in his 'Diary' states that he saw a pair at the above-mentioned place ou the 17th 

 of April, which were the first he observed travelling up. On the 18th he saw another. 

 At Ighiz Yar this species was very common on the 18th of May, and he found it breeding 

 in the Diiba Valley on the 6th of June. Dr. Henderson says that it was found throughout 

 Kashmir and in Yarkand, on the banks of the Karakash Eiver, and wherever there was 

 grass and low jungle, but not otherwise. 



Genus SAXICOLA. 



170. Saxicola picata. 



Saocicola picata, Blyth; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 153 (1876); Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 57; 

 Barnes, Str. F. ix. p. p. 217 (1880) ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 367 (1881) ; Bidd. Ibis, 

 1881, p. 56; Scully, t. c. p. 441; Bidd. Ibis, 1882, p. 276; C. Swinh. t. c. p. 106; Zarudn. Ois. 

 Transcasp. p. 38 (1885) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 74 (1889) ; Gates, Faun. Brit. 

 Ind., Birds, ii. p. 71 (1890). 



No. 458. Kargil, August 19, 1873. 



171. Saxicola pleschanka. 



Saocicola leucomela (Pall.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 65 (1873). 



Saxicola hendersoni, Hume, Ibis, 1871, p. 408 ; id. & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 206, pi. 13 (1873) ; 



Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 144 (1876) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 61. 

 Saxicola morio, H. & E. ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 336; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 152 (1876); Prjev. in 



Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 183 (1877) ; Wardlaw Bamsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 57; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. V. p. 372 (1881); Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 58; Scully, t. c. p. 443; Bidd. Ibis, 1882, p. 276; 



C. Swinb. t. c. p. 107 ; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 85 ; Severtz. Ibis, 1883^ 



p. 69 ; Scully, J. A. S. Beng. Ivi. p. 82 (1887) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 74 (1889). ' 

 Saxicola pleschanka (Lepesch.) ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 73 (1890). 



No. 462. Kargil, August 19, 1873. 



No. 475 [juv.]. Shargol, August 20, 1873. 



Nos. 1673, 1679, 1686, 1690 [ 6 ad.]. South-west of Ighiz Yar, May 18, 1874. 



No. 1679 still bears abundant traces of the brown tips to the dorsal feathers, 



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