48 Ornithological Ohservations in the Sutlej valley, [No. 1, 



I have already remarked, that Hydrolata would seem to be more 

 correctly classed here, instead of in the family TrjRDiDiE. 



None of the true motacillin^ are, during the summer, very 

 common in the Sutlej valley, for most of the species generally proceed 

 further north and eastwards, into Tibet and Central Asia. I procured 

 a few of them through my shikarees at Kotegurh in April and May, 

 and others myself when travelling through the valley proceeding to 

 or returning from Tibet. The most common species are :— 



155. Motacilla Maderaspatana, Briss., (II. 217) being occa- 

 sionally seen also in summer near Chini. 



156. Motacilla personata, Gould, (III. 873, M. dukhunensis, 

 Sykes, II. 218), is very rare in summer as likewise the two following;— 



157. Colabates sulphurea, Bechst, (II. 220) and 

 158 Budytes viridis, G m e I. (II. 222). 



159. Budytes citreoloides, Eo d g s., (III. 873), is especially com- 

 mon beyond Chini, towards the Tibetan frontier, as also in Lahul and 

 north of Kishtwar. Budytes Bayi of Europe occurs in Kashmir, but I 

 have not met with it further eastwards. 



160. Nemoricola inlica, G m e l, (II. 226), has been shot near 

 Kotegurh in April, and I also obtained a specimen in August 1865 

 near Suroo in the Dras district, N. E. of Kashmir.* 



The following species, including the so-called Pipits, do not seem 

 to be naturally classed with the motacillinje.' The great differences 

 which exists in the form of the bill, in the plumage, in their 

 habits &c, would seem to justify the formation of a separate 

 subfamily, being rather more allied to the alaxjdin^, than to the 



MOTACILLINJE. 



161 Pipastes macttlatus, Hodgs., (III. 873,) I have only met 

 with this species in the lower hills, but it breeds in W. Tibet. 

 It was observed by me on one or two occasions in the Indus valley, 

 W of Lei, in company with the next one. 



162. Pipastes arboretjs, Bech., (II. 229), not common in W. 

 Tibet and Kashmir; about October it maybe seen in the low hills 

 near Kangra and Belaspoor. The following species, 



163. CORYDALLA RlCHARDI, Vieil I., (II. 231), 



164. Corydalla rupula, Vieil Z., (II. 232), 



• Blyth (Ibis 1867, p. 31) says that it is also found near Pekin. 



