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Family CAMPOPHAGID^. 

 Genus PERI CRO COT US. 



227. Perichocotus buevirostris. 



Pericrocotus brevirostris (Vig.) ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 184 (1873) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. iv. p. 79 (1879) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 52 ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 435 ; Gates, Faun. 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 483 (1889). 



Nos. 85, 86, 6 ad. Changligally, near Murree, July 2, 1873. 

 No. 87, 2 ad. Changligally, near Murree, July 3, 1873. 

 No. 313. Sonamarg, August 10, 1873. 



Colonel Biddulph procured a male in the Jhelum Valley. Dr. Henderson says that the 

 species was met with throughout Kashmir, from Jamu to the foot of the Zoji Pass, in May 

 and June. 



Pamily MUSCIOAPID^, 

 Genus MUSCICAPA. 



228. MUSCICAPA GUISOLA. 



Muscicapa grisola, L. ; Severtz. Tiirkest. Jevotn. p. Q7 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 188; Blanf. East. 



Persia, ii. p. 143 (1876) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 151 (1879) ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 437 i 



C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 104; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 70; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. 



p. 69 (1889) ; Gates, JFaun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 4 (1890). 

 Butalis grisola, Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 185 (1875) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 53 ; 



Zarudn. Gis. Transcasp. p. 35 (1885). 



No. 731. Tanksi, September 17, 1873. 



A single specimen of this Plycatcher was obtained by Dr. Henderson on the 22nd of 

 September, " in an absolute desert some 14,000 feet above the sea-level, at the foot of the 

 Suget Pass, Ladak, a few miles south of what may be considered the boundary of Yarkand. 

 The thermometer stood at 23° Pahrenheit when the bird was shot." 



Genus HEMICHELIDON. 

 229. Hemichelidon sibihica. 



Hemichelidon fidiginosa, Hodgs. ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 184, pi. iv. (1873). 

 Hemichelidon sibirica, Gm. ; Prjev. in Rowley's Grn. Misc. ii. p. 272 (1877); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 iv. p. 120 (1879) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 53 ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 52 ; Scully, t. c. p. 436. 



Nos. 302, 303, 317, 332, 333, 347, 359, adults and young. Sonamarg, August 10-12, 1873. 

 No. 354, adult. Sonamarg, August 12, 1873.— Bill horny black ; feet dark brown ; iris 

 brown. Length 4*8 inches, wing 2*93, tail 1*8, tarsus 05. 



Dr. Henderson and Colonel Biddulph both obtained this species at Sonamarg, and the 

 latter gentleman states that it was very common in Kashmir. 



