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allied species {Gotyle subsoccata) also met with in winter in 

 the Punjaub. 



The Tibet partridge (P. hodgsonii) was first discovered by- 

 Mr. Wilson of Mussouree* in 1841, and subsequently de- 

 scribed by Mr. Hodgson.! It was stOl later (1854) met with by 

 Lieutenant Smith, 75th regiment, near the Pangong Lake in 

 Little Tibet, j Since the above date I observe several more 

 specimens have reached Europe. It seems this partridge is 

 common along the western slopes of the Tibetan Himalaya, 

 and affects barren mountain-sides. When the Eupshoo moun- 

 taias are properly explored, it may be found there likewise. 

 The skin of Mr. Smith's specimen, from which Mr. Gould's 

 delineation was taken, measured lOj inches in length. A 

 white band crosses the forehead, and, passing over the eye- 

 brows, meets the opposite at the occiput. Throat white ; 

 black patch at the corners of the lower mandible ; breast and 

 belly barred irregularly with black and rufous, the former in 

 greatest abundance on the breast, the latter on the neck and 

 sides of the beUy and breast ; vent and lower party of the belly 

 dirty-white ; the feathers as usual are soft and downy ; 

 crown rufous ; occiput mottled with black and rufous, which 

 is continued over the back and wing-covers, resembling 

 closely the same parts in the Indian gray francolin, whilst 

 the quills of the birds assimilate in appearance with the same 

 parts in the black partridge. Many sportsmen who saw 

 Mr. Smith's specimen pronounced it a hybrid between the 

 two last-named species, and certainly at first sight the simi- 

 larity is striking. 



The ibex is found on certain ranges in Ladakh, especially 



* Calcutta Sporting Review for December 1848, p. 163. 

 t J. A. S. Bengal, vol. xxv. p. 165. 

 X Gould's Birds of Asia. 



