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



This species is occasionally in the spring seen about Kotegurh, and 

 as far east as Naehar, the highest elevations, at which I observed 

 it near Serahan, lying between 9,000 and 10,000 feet ; it is, however, 

 always a rare bird in this portion of the hills. 



169. Allotrius* sp., the following is a short description. Head 

 slaty, rest of upper plumage greenish, wings dusky on the inner webs, 

 coverts of the primaries black ; lateral tail feathers pale on the outer 

 webs, darker on the inner, tipped greenish white ; chin, throat and 

 breast greyish white, abdomen and vent light green, especially on 

 the sides ; length of wing 2 J inches ; tail 2 inches. 



The female seems only to differ by having the head above greenish 

 grey, instead of pure slaty, and in having the coverts of the secondaries 

 tipped pale yellow ; the tail is greyish green, the outer feathers tipped 

 dull whitish. Only three specimens were shot, in February 1867, in 

 the southern part of Kulu. 



170. Siva strigtjla, Hodgs. (II. 252). The yellow on the crest 

 and below is paler in the female, than in the male ; the back is some- 

 what ashy in the former, the black spot on the throat smaller and 

 the central tail feathers more tipped yellow, while in the male the 

 tail feathers are often nearly all black, being chesnut on the inner, 

 basal half, not outer as stated by J er do n. 



The young bird scarcely differs from the old one, except that its 

 plumage above, on the back, wings and on the tail is a little more 

 ashy, the dusky spots on the throat being at the same time very small. 

 This species in summer frequents thick forests, between 6,000 to 9,000 

 feet, all along the elevated range from Simla to Naehar ; it is in 

 general rare and only in winter more common about Kotegiu-h. 



171. Proparus (Siva?) vinipeotus, Hodgs. (II. 257). The 

 ear-coverts are darker brown than the head and nape ; the white 

 stripe, extending from the eye to the nape, is above bordered Avith 

 some blackish feathers ; lores black, back pale brown, rump and upper 

 tail coverts lighter and rusty, longer wing coverts bright rusty. The 

 upper mandible has a very small and shallow, but a traceable notch, 

 the bill is, however, in every other respect exactly like in Siva, the 



* This is Allotrius xanthocMorus, Hodgs. which J ev don identifies with A. 

 melanotis, the present species being, however, certainly a distinct bird. Gould s 

 figure in " Birds of Asia" pt. VIII. is correct. Allotrius can only be considered 

 as a subgeneric division of Ptlieruthius. 



