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



with in the neighbouring districts of little Tibet. I observed it 

 between Dras and the Zoiji pass. 



Blyth (Ibis 1866, p. 372) mentions, besides M. mstigma, two 

 other allied species, M. ciliarismd leucoshista, as having been figured 

 by H o d g g on. None of these have been seen by me in the interior 

 of the N. W. Himalayas. 



87 Siphia strophiata, H o dg ., (1. 479). The basal white on the 

 outer tail feathers is decreasing (not increasing as stated by J e r d o n) 

 iu extent towards the outermost feathers. This species must in 

 summer inhabit the more eastern regions of Tibet, near the sources 

 of the Sutlej, for it only comes in winter to Kotegurh, and even then 

 is rather rare. I noticed it also repeatedly in Rupshu and on the Indus. 

 It appears to be more common in the eastern Himalayas. 



88 Siphia (Erithrosterna) leucomelanura, Jlodgs.^. 47y> 

 I have met this species only twice,having procured a male near Kotegurh 

 iu September 1866, and in the next month a female specimen near 

 Mahasu, N. East of Simla. It appears to be a very rare bird. The male 

 has the breast light grey, but scarcely with any purplish tinge The 

 female resembles that of Muse, superciliaris, being olivaceous brown 

 above and dusky on the inner webs of the wing-feathers ; tail ferrugi- 

 nous, especially at the base ; chin, throat and vent white breast and 

 part of abdomen pale olivaceous brown, especially on the sides ; under 

 tail-coverts slightly ferruginous. _ _ 



The bill is much more feeble at the tip, than in typical OpAta and, 

 if the distinctions of Mtidula and Erythrosterna from Musczcapula are 

 admitted, it would be more correct to place this species in the genus 



Erythrostema. 



89 Erythrosterna leucura, Gmel, (I 481) ; very rare about 

 Kotegurh, hut apparently more common to the west, for I have pro- 

 cured several specimens near Srinagur, in Kashmir. 



XVIII Family, MEBULIDM 



90 Pnorpyoa sqammata, Gould, (I. 488), very rare in the 

 forests about Nachar and near Chini; it is found about Kotegurh in 

 winter Another species, somewhat aliedto P. longicaudata, Moore, 

 occurs in W. Tibet ; it is of the same size as the former, but has the 

 rilumage below yellowish white or cinerous, (not ferruginous). 



P 91 Troolouytes nipa.ensis, Sodgs., (I. 491), very rare about 

 Serahan and Nachar, more common in winter about Kotegurh. 



