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Yarkand :— This species was noticed almost daily from the vicinity of Bimbur, right through 
Cashmere and Ladakh, to beyond Le; but it never occurred after leaving the Pungong Lake. On 
the return journey the bird had commenced finding its way down to those portions of the plains 
which lie near the foot of the hills; and on the day of my return I shot a specimen at Lahore. 
During the cold weather solitary stragglers are occasionally killed, even in the central provinces.” 
Captain Hutton writes, “This beautiful little bird was very common on the rocks near Candahar 
and in other parts of Afghanistan.” Mr. Vigne gives the following note in his ‘Travels in 
Kashmir. “It is found,’ he writes, “throughout the Alpine Punjab, displaying the delicate 
scarlet patch upon its grey wings, as it flits over the perpendicular banks with the movements of a 
butterfly rather than of a bird.” Dr. A. Leith Adams likewise writes :—“ Found in the Punjab, 
frequenting the ravines and broken-up country north of the Jhelum; common in the valley of 
Cashmere and on the lower Himalayan ranges.” Specimens are in the Indian Museum, collected 
by Strachey in Kumaon. Dr. Jerdon says:—‘“ It is found throughout the Himalayas, descending 
in winter to the alpine parts of the Punjab. It is also found in Cashmere, in Afghanistan, and 
the south of Europe. I saw it frequently near Darjeeling, but only in winter, from a level of 
2500 to 5000 feet or so. I first saw it in a tea plantation at Kursion, hunting along some 
small bare ravines that the rains had made in the cleared ground—occasionally on the bank of 
a road. I also noticed it on rocks on the road-side, and on perpendicular cliffs along some of the 
rivers. It looks very beautiful when flitting about, the fine red patch on its wings displayed, 
which it seems fond of doing continually, and, as remarked by Vigne, looking more like a 
butterfly than a bird.” Herr A. von Pelzeln, in his paper on the birds collected by Dr. Stolicza 
in Thibet and Himalayas, says that it was met with by the latter gentleman at Kotegurh and at 
Tnantse Sumdo. Mr. Swinhoe states that a specimen of a bird answering to the present species 
was shot by Mr. Consul Gingell on the mountain-plateau near Foochow during winter. He adds :— 
‘“« The bird was accurately described to me by that gentleman; but I did not see the specimen. I 
have neyer met with the bird myself in China.” Pére David has also procured it at Peking. 
The Rey. Canon Tristram states, in his ‘ Ornithology of Palestine :’-—‘* We frequently met 
with the beautiful Wall-creeper, a permanent inhabitant of the rocky defiles in the northern and 
central parts. We never saw it in the south, where probably the cliffs are too parched and dry 
to supply it with its insect food. I know few ornithological sights more interesting than to watch 
this beautiful little creature as it flits along the face of a long line of cliff, with a crab-like 
sidling motion, rapidly expanding and closing its wings in a succession of jerks, and showing its 
brilliant crimson shoulders at each movement. It generally works up the gorge at nearly the 
same elevation, with its breast towards the face of the rock, and moves close to its surface in a 
perpendicular position, rapidly darting forth its bill and picking out minute insects as it passes 
along. Ina few minutes it would return down the valley again, quartering the rock in a line 
parallel to its former course. In the Wady Hamam, near Gennesareth, we twice observed 
chinks in the precipice where the Wall-creeper was breeding; but they were hopelessly 
inaccessible.” 
We translate the following notes from Bailly’s ‘ Ornithologie de la Savoie: —‘“ It is found 
with us throughout the year, but always in small numbers. It is generally seen singly, and but 
rarely in pairs, unless in the breeding-season ; the young that have not paired are those that go 
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