1868.] N. W. Himalaya. 37 



Tli is is comparatively a rare bird, though occurring all through the 

 N. W. Himalayas, chiefly on elevations between 4 and 7,000 feet ; it- 

 resembles in its habits to a tit, principally frequenting brushwood and 

 low forests, where it eagerly searches alter insects. In the Sutlej valley 

 it is not found beyond the Wangtu bridge, breeding near Kotegurh, 

 Jaora and Serahan, on heights of 5 to 7,000 feet. 



111. POMATORHINUS ERYTIIROGENYS, G O U Id, (II. 31). Old birds 

 usually have a short blackish stripe extending backwards from the 

 lower mandible ; in young birds this stripe is rusty, as likewise the 

 sides of the neck and of the breast. The inner webs of the wings are ashy 

 brown, the outer olivaceous, of the same colour as the body and the 

 tail; wings and tail are obsoletely barred with dark, cross lines. 



Not common in the forests and thick brushwoods between Kotegurh 

 andNachar; it remains during the winter in the neighbourhood of 

 Simla and Kotegurh. 



112. Gaurulax albogularis, Goul d, (II. 38). The lateral tail 

 feathers are barred with dusky cross lines, the tips are white; this 

 species in summer retires to the denser forests beyond Kotegurh, but it 

 is more common in winter about this station. 



113. Trochalopteron erythrocephalum, Vig, (II. 43). The 

 outer webs of all the wing feathers are bright greenish yellow, with a 

 ferruginous tinge ; the inner webs are blackish, paling on the margins ; 

 the tertiaries are broadly tipped ashy ; all the tail feathers have a yel- 

 lowish green tinge, being on the outer edges brighter towards the base ; 

 upper and lower tail coverts are ashy and somewhat olivaceous. The 

 black spots are occasionally almost wanting on the middle of the 

 breast. The male has the black on the throat purer, the chesnut of 

 the head somewhat darker and the greenish yellow edgings of the 

 wings tinged with more rufous ; in other respects of colouring both 

 sexes are identical. The young bird is above and below on the 

 neck, back, breast, vent, upper and lower tail and the thigh -coverts 

 uniformly light rufous brown, without any black spots ; otherwise it is 

 coloured like the old bird. 



114. Trochalopteron variegatum, Vig., (II. 45), is common at 

 all seasons in the higher regions of the N. W. Himalayas, and 

 seldom descends lower than 5,000 feet. Females which I procured, 

 in June 1865, in Lahul, have the outer webs of the wing coverts 



