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261. CUocabis CHUIOB, ray, (III. 564) ; common all over the 

 N. W. Himalayas and W. Tibet, where it ascends elevations up to 



14,000 feet, but in Tibet it generally prefers cultivated districts to tbe 

 elevated and bare plateaus. 



The Tibetan specimens are usually much paler in colouring than 

 those generally seen an tbe Indian side, and tbus very closely resemble 

 the European type Oac. graea, of which in reality it can' hardly be 

 culled more than a local variety. 



_ 202. Abboricoia tobqubola, Va I. (III. 577), is very solitary m 

 Us habits and during the snmtner generally met with only near the 

 taut ot trees or near tbe snows; it con.es down to Kotcgurb, Simla 

 and other places merely in winter; as soon as tbe snow begins to 

 met on the higher ranges, it immediately retires fa, the interior. 



268. OOTDBNIX OOMMCBig, Bon a I. (III. 586) ; not rare on culti- 

 vated grounds all along tbe lesser ranges, it ascends elevations up to 

 about 5,000 feet, but very rarely extend, into tbe interior of the bills 

 I observed it below Kotcgurb, and it is occasionally also obtained in tbe 

 Kulu valley between 4,000 to 5,000 feet. 



One or two other species of quails occur in the low hills and in the 

 Dhoons, but they do not enter tbe interior to any considerable distance 

 264-270. GIULLATOUES and NATATORES. 

 Of these two orders scarcely any species permanently inhabit the 

 Bntlej valley, their absence being due to the scarcity of marshy grounds 

 With the exception of a few small places in the lower hills, where rice is 

 cultivated. I may mention a few of the more common species, though 

 there cannot be a doubt that a large number of others which migmte 

 from tbe plains to Kashmir, Tibet or to northern Asia make at various 

 times a short stay in different portions of the valley. The following 

 species have been observed by myself, either in the spring or in the 

 autumn; Ae.judiih pyrrhothorax, Numenius arquata, LUosa exm- 

 Jhala, Chettusia gregaria, Totanus calidris, ActUis glareola, and 

 A- hypoeucm, Eulica atra, Gallinula chhropus (an G. Bnmesi >) * 

 BydroplananuscUmrgus, Podiceps cristas, Sterna U mn do, SteL 

 lavmuca (all common in. Kashmir and Tibet), XemJ brm , 

 mcephala (common on the Thsomoriri in Rupshu), Querela 

 glooUans and Q. creeea, Ma,-eca Penelope, Ana S UueopthaUa (common ■ 

 in Kashmir). 



* Not likely a different species. 



