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Tetraogallus himalayansis, G. B. Or ay. 



Vernacular ITaiaSS-— [Kullu, Lupu, Baera, Western Nepal ; Huin-wal, Kumaun ; 

 Jer-moonal, Hills north of Mussooree ; Leep, Knhi ; Kubuk, Gourkagu, 

 Kashmir; Kauk-i-durra, Afghanistan; Kabk-i-dareh, Persia; Utar, Ular, 

 Turkistan.\ 



HE Himalayan Snow-Cock is found in suitable loca- 

 lities throughout the Himalayas from the eastern 

 portions of Kumaun to Hazara, and probably con- 

 siderably further west in Afghanistan. Writing 

 from Gilghit, Captain Biddulph tells me that this 

 is one of the few game birds that he had met with 

 west of the Indus. 

 It does not enter Nepal ; Hodgson records that the only 

 specimens he obtained were shot in the hills of Kumaun, 

 close under the perpetual snows, and that it is not met with 

 in Nepal. 



Hutton recorded that a species of Snow-Cock, which he 

 identified with this, was sometimes brought into the market at 

 Kabul, and that he had four live ones at Candahar. I do not 

 know that any Afghan specimens have since been examined, 

 and at that time the several species had not been generally 

 discriminated ; but I do not myself doubt that it is the present 

 species that occurs in Northern Afghanistan. 



Outside our limits it occurs on the northern flanks of the 

 Kuen-luen, as at the Sanju Pass, right away to the Pamir, and 

 Biddulph met with it, about all the passes en route to Wakhan, 

 and on the Pamir ridges, and at the top of the Baroghil Pass 

 on the Hindoo Koosh. 



The plains of Yarkand are, of course, too low for this species ; 

 but great numbers are brought into Kashgar during the 

 winter of a pale race (not, I think, specifically separable), which 

 Scully says come from the hills near Kugiar, which may be 

 styled northern outliers of the Kuen-luen, but which Biddulph 

 believes come also from the Tian-Shan. 



It is impossible to be certain what species of this genus 

 Severtsov (and he records two) obtained in Western Turkestan, 

 but to judge from the names he uses, himalayensis was not 

 amongst them. 



