48 W. T. Blanford— Zoology of BiTckvm. [No. 1, 



the last secondaries (or tertiaries) being entirely rufous ; tail as in the adult ; 

 throat and breast brownish yellow, the feathers with dusky edges, giving a 

 scale like appearance ; flanks duller ; lower abdomen, vent, and under-tail 

 coverts white. 



CnrcLma:. 



348 Cikclus CASHMiEiEisrsis ? Gould. — Blyth has already mentioned 

 the occurrence of this dipper in Sikkim, Ibis, 1866, p. 374. I found it 

 far from rare in the upper parts of the Lacken and Lachung valleys, at 

 elevations exceeding 14000 feet. 



The specimens vary much in plumage. The only two I have retained 

 are smaller than the dimensions given by Jerdon and Salvin (Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 117), and they do not exactly agree in coloration. In that which I 

 look upon as adult, or near adult, the head and neck above and at the sides, 

 and the upper part of the back are dull brown, a white spot above the eye, 

 and another smaller one below, middle and lower back cinereous with dark 

 brown margins, tail cinereous, quills and wing coverts brown, the outer webs 

 cinereous, the secondaries and greater coverts with narrow white tips ; throat 

 and breast white, abdomen brown, the feathers with slight white edges, 

 flanks and under tail coverts cinereous ; bill black, tarsus (when alive) 

 purplish grey, whig 3.4, tail 1*9, tarsus 11, bill from gape 0"9, from 

 forehead - 65 inches. 



Another specimen, probably younger, has some grey mixed with the 

 brown of the head feathers, and the centre of the abdomen, as far back as the 

 thighs, white, not so pure as on the breast, the feathers being brownish 

 below ; there are traces of dusk margins to the breast feathers also ; wing 

 36, tad 2,05, tarsus 1*13, bfll from gape - 9, from forehead 0.65 inches. 



If these birds belong to G. Gaslimiriensis, it is evidently a variable species. 



347 C. asiaticus, Swains. — This ranges, in the summer, as high as 

 12,000 feet at least, and I have a specimen shot at that elevation at Yeonia- 

 tong hi the Lachung valley. I saw brown birds which I noted at the time 

 as belonging to this species up to 14000 feet, and I believe they were 

 correctly identified, but as I secured none, they may have belonged to the 

 next. Towards the end of October, I saw this dipper in the great Bangit 

 river, not 1000 feet above the sea. 



349 C. sokdedtts, Gould.— A single dipper which I shot at about 

 15,000 feet on the Chachii stream below Phalung, close to the Kongra 

 Lama pass, only differs from the description of this species by its rather 

 larger size ; it is a little darker in colour than Gould's figure in the Birds of 

 Asia. I took it at the time for G. asiaticus, and was surprised at seeing that 

 bird at so great an elevation, in a place where the fauna is distinctly Tibetan. 

 There is a cinereous tinge on the outer margins of the quills on the upper 

 coverts, which have dark margins, and on the tail. Wing 4 in., tad 2"3, tarsus 



