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



226. Linota pygmj5a, n. sp* There is another small finch found in 

 Ladak and in Bissahir. It is considerably smaller than Metop.pmilla, 

 the wings being only 2J ; the head and nape are blackish brown, ear- 

 coveits rufous brown, general plumage above dark brown, the feathers 

 being centrally streaked with that colour and broadly margined pale 

 fulvous brown ; wings and tail blackish brown ; edges of outer webs 

 of the primaries and partly also of the secondaries yellow, the entire 

 margins of the tertiaries and the tips of the former, as well as the 

 tips and outer edges of all the wing coverts are pale rufous brown ; tail 

 deeply emarginated in the middle, the external edges for two-thirds 

 length from the base yellow, the rest pale rufous ; throat slightly 

 tinged with yellow, rest of lower plumage light fulvous brown, 

 centrally streaked dusky on the breast and upper vent. The bill is 

 very small, dusky above, culmen distinctly angular, ridged. 



I procured two specimens of this species, one at about 13,000 

 feet near the snows above Chini (August, 1866), and one near Padam 

 in S. W. Tibet at about 12,000 feet, (September, 1865). I cannot 

 identify this species at present with any described by Pallas from 



North Asia, for which reason I think it advisable to introduce a 



new specific name. 



227. Linota brevirostrts, Gould, (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 

 1855, p. 216), is exactly of the same size as the European Lin. 

 montium, apparently only differing from it by its paler plumage ; 

 rare in Ladak and visiting Kulu and the Sutlej valley in winter ; 

 it is also in winter caught near Chini and sometimes caged. 



228. MONTIFRINGILLA HJEMATOPYGIA, G Ould, (II. 413, Birds of 



Asia, pt. III. pi. 15). 



229. Montieringtlla Adamsi, Moot e, (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 

 1858, p. 482, pi. 156). The longer upper tail-coverts are grey; the 

 secondaries are black on their basal half. 



Both these species are inhabitants of Ladak during the summer, but 

 they have been procured in winter through my shikaries in the Sutlej 

 valley as well as in Kulu. They also visit Northern India in the cold 

 weather. There is a third, apparently new species of Montifringilla to 



* Dr. Je r d o n informs me that he also procured in the Punjab a very small 

 finch which he supposes to be a second species of Metoponia ; my specimens 

 thouo-h very small appear to be more allied to Linota (April 1868). 



