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



80. Leucocerca fuscoventris, Frankl, (I. 451). I found this 

 species in summer between Kotegurh and Nachav, on elevations of 

 5_9000 feet ; it is a rare bird ; one speciman was procured below 

 Kotegurh in March 1867. 



81. Leucocerca albofrontata, Frankl , (I. 452). Dr. Adams 

 remarks that this species is only to be met with on the lower ranges 

 of the western Himalayas. I obtained, in October 1865, several 

 specimens above Belaspoor, bat have never seen it much further in 

 the interior. 



82. Cryptolopha cinereocapilla, Vi e i I, (1. 455). The bill is in 

 young specimens much shorter and comparatively broader at the 

 base than it is in old ones. The species does not go eastwards beyond the 

 more wooded parts of the valley near the Wangtu-bridge, and hardly 

 ever ascends to greater heights than 8000 feet ; it is, however, most 

 common at Kotegurh between 5000 and 6000 feet, and at similar 

 elevations all over the lower, outer ranges of the N. W. Himalaya. 



83. Hemichelidon fuliginosdm, Eodg s., (I. 438). The old male 

 is above olivaceous ashy, the feathers on the head being broadly centred 

 dusky ; the wings and tail are darker, the middle portions of the 

 inner webs of all the wing-feathers forming a large fulvous brown spot 

 which is specially conspicuous when the bird is on the wing. Some 

 feathers on the front of the head, above the nostrils, the lores, and 

 partly the eyelids are white ; the front edges of the wings, chin and 

 throat are also albescent, passing on the breast into ashy grey, and on 

 the vent, especially on the under-tail coverts, again into white. 



The old female is almost exactly like the male ; the white above 

 the nostrils, on the chin and on the interior edges of the wings being, 

 however, somewhat rufescent ; the tertiaries and the longer wing coverts 

 are usually also externally margined and tipped with fulvous or rufescent. 

 The female generally appears to be somewhat larger than the male. 



The young bird has the plumage above much darker, sometimes 

 rather black or deep brown; all the feathers above and on the 

 scapulars are centrally streaked whitish or pale fulvous, the streaks 

 varying in breadth in different specimens, being however always 

 conspicuous towards the tips. The wing coverts, tertiaries and, towards 

 their terminations, partly also the secondaries are more or less broadly 

 margined with ferruginous, the entire tips of the tail feathers being 



