14 Ornithological Observations in the Sutlej valley, [No. 1, 



shot in the middle of August 1866 in a pine-forest at Rogi, about 6 

 miles W. of Cliini. 



Above, dark brown, ashy on the rump and upper tailcoverts ; all 

 the feathers on the head, especially in front, and on the sides of 

 neck margined and tipped with pale rufous, the rest of the feathers 

 above and on the scapulars being only tipped with darker rufous and 

 terminating with very fine silvery hairs ; a narrow supercilium, and 

 partially on the nape, white ; ear-coverts brown, rufescent at the lower 

 base ; wings brown, the feathers with distant dusky bars on the inner 

 webs' and pale rufous or ochrey about the middle ; the secondaries are 

 tipped pale, the teitiaries more distinctly rufous and both also terminate 

 with long silvery films ; tail ashy, each feather with four dusky bands, 

 the outermost pair only on the inner web banded, all are tipped pale 

 rufous, and on the extreme edges with a silvery grey colour, though 

 these edges appear to be very soon worn off. 



Below, chin and throat white, each feather with a very short dusky 

 mesial streak, the streaks being near the tips a little stronger than on 

 the sides, where the white passes into fulvous; the rest of the 

 plumage below is very closely banded with pale and rufous brown, 

 each of the feathers having three broad bands of a light brown colour, 

 being margined posteriorly and partially also anteriorly with a rufous 

 brown ; the remainder of each feather is pure white. On the abdomen 

 and thighcoverts the bands become very narrow, and the latter are 

 internally much rufous ; the lower tail coverts are pure white, partially 

 tipped with pale brown; tail below albescent, with cross bands 

 distinctly conspicuous. The sides of the body are much rusty brown ; 

 the inner wingcoverts whitish, barred with numerous, narrow cross- 

 bars of blackish brown and pale ochry. 



Length of wing 8 inch. ; tail 5f inch. ; tarsus 2J inch. ; middle toe 

 If; outer toe 1J., with a small claw ; inner toe 1J inch, inner claw alone 

 nearly \ inch, and almost more than double the strength of the outer ; 

 hind-toe nearly 1 inch, of which the claw is about the half in length. 

 It is evident that these measurements are intermediate between 

 those of Mr. Blyth's A. nisoides and the common A. nisus oi 

 Linne. 



On comparing Mr. B 1 y t h 's originals in the Indian Museum I found, 

 that one of the three originals is lost, the other two very much resem- 



