AVES. 95 



Petrocincla cyane, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 65 (1873). 



Monticola cyanea, Blanf.East. Persia, ii. p. 155 (1876) ; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 39 (1885). 



Monticola cyanus, Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 316 (1881) ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 438; C. Swinh. 



Ibis, 1882, p. 105; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 68; Scully, J. A. S. Beug. Ivi. p. 82 (1887) ; Sharpe, 



Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 73 (1889). 

 Petrophila cyanus, Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 146 (1890). 



No. 425, s juY. Dras, August 16, 1873. 



A young bird in nearly complete blue plumage, moulting from the spotted or nestling 

 plumage. 

 No. 426, $ . Dras, August 16, 1873. 

 No. 512. Kharbu, August 22, 1873. 

 Nos. 548, 565. Leh, August 28, 1873. 



Colonel Biddulph says that he only saw this Rock-Thrush in the Indus Valley and a little 

 way out of it to Dras. Dr. Henderson writes :— " The Blue Rock-Thrush was only met with 

 in Ladak, and there only on the upward journey in June and July. Solitary individuals were 

 seen throughout Ladak west of Leh, at Shargol and other places, near streams &c." 



Genus MONTICOLA. 



200. Monticola saxatilis. 



Petrocincla saxatilis (L.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 65 (1873) ; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. 



Wien, 1883, p. 87; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 39 (1885); Hadde, Ornis, iii. p. 487 (1887). 



Monticola saxatilis, Hume & Renders. Lahore to Yark. p. 190 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875 p. 335 • 



Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 156 (1876) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 139 (1876) ; Prjev. in Howley^s Orn! 



Misc. ii. p. 201 (1877) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 53; Scully, ibid. p. 439; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 68; 



Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 73 (1889) ; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 147 (1890)! 



No. 640. Leh, September 6, 1873.— Length 8 inches, wing 4*68, tail 2-35, tarsus 1-15 ; bill 



from front O'?, from gape I'l. Iris dark brown ; bill horny black, lower mandible paler ; 



feet black. 



An apparently adult female in winter plumage. 

 No. 1678. S.W. of Ighiz Yar, May 18, 1874. 

 An adult male in full plumage. 



Dr. Stoliczka states that this Eock-Thrush was rare near Ighiz Yar. Dr. Henderson 

 obtained a young male, a bird of the year, at Shahidiila, in Hill Yarkand, on the 21st of 

 September. Dr. Scully gives the following note.— '^ This species was Jfirst noticed about the 

 end of September at some of the small oases in the desert-ground between Sanju and 

 Karghalik, at an elevation of about 6000 feet. The birds were tolerably numerous, hoppino* 

 about in cultivated fields. After that these birds were never observed until the following 

 year, when they were met with on the banks of the Karakash at an elevation of about 12,000 

 feet.^ They frequented grassy ground, and when alarmed flew up and perched on the neigh- 

 bouring rocks." 



