64 W. T. Blanford— Zoology of Wcim. [No. 1, 



654 A. steophiattts, Hodgs. — I obtained at Yeomatong, about 12,000 

 feet above the sea, a single specimen of what may be the young of this 

 species. It differs in the breast being fulvous with broad black streaks 

 instead of uniformly ferruginous. The claws too appear to be a little 

 straighter. It is possible that this may be distinct, but it is at least equally 

 probable that it is a young bird. 



I am indebted to Mr. W. S. Atkinson for an adult specimen of A. 

 strojjJiiatus obtained on the Singalela. range. 



656 A. etjbeculoides, Hodgs. — This bird was only seen in the Upper 

 Lachen valley above 14,000 feet, together with Leucosticte licematopygia, 

 Otocoris Elwesi, and other birds belonging evidently to the Tibetan fauna. 

 Whole head and neck greyish brown, rather browner above, and greyer 

 below, back feathers blackish brown with broad rufous brown margins, 

 shoulder of wing greyish brown, the quills and coverts dark brown with 

 rufous or fulvous brown margins, broader on the last secondaries and coverts, 

 and both ranges of the latter with whitish tips, tail feathers the same colour 

 as the quills with very slight pale edges, breast ferruginous, abdomen whitish, 

 flanks fulvous with a few dark streaks ; iris clear pale brown, bill black, legs 

 reddish brown. Dimensions taken before skinning : length 63, wing 2 "9, 

 tail 2 - 55, tarsus 0"95, bill from forehead 0'45 in. 



This bird was met with on hill sides, and had, like A. iiipalensis, an 

 especial preference for the piles of loose blocks of rock and stones so com- 

 mon at high elevations and in glacier regions. 



FringilliclcB. 

 Mycerobas melanoxanthus, (Hodgs.). — Two or three specimens were 

 seen at moderate elevations in Northern Sikkim. For the only one I have 

 I am indebted to Captain Elwes. It was shot at about 11,000 feet in 

 the Lachung valley near Yeomatong. 



Pyerhttla eeytkrocephala, (Vigors).— I shot one specimen at about 

 11,000 feet on the Chola. range, and another at the same elevation in the 

 Lachen valley. It appears not to be a common bird in Northern Sikkim. 



The head in the male is dull scarlet or bright ferruginous rather than 

 dull crimson, chin black, and the white tips to be larger wing coverts are 

 wanting in adults ; the primary coverts in both sexes are dull black through- 

 out, outer secondary coverts black with grey tips, the black decreasing in 

 amount towards the body. 



A young male has the head greenish like the female, but with some 

 dashes of red, the throat and flanks also greenish, middle of the breast 

 ferruginous. 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill from forehead. 



Male, 3-1 2.55 0-65 0*36 



Female, 3- 25 0'35 



