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Sturnus nitens, was obtained in great numbers in Kashmir, 
and as all the specimens are precisely similar, and exactly 
agree with those previously collected by myself, I have, as 
Mr. Gladstone would say, "ventured'^ to figure [PI. XXIV.], 
and publish it as distinct. It is of the 8. unicolor type, but 
much smaller and far more brightly coloured. It is, so far 
as I yet know, confined to Kashmir, Afghanistan, and the 
Peshawar Valley. 
In Ladak Saxicola atrogularis was obtained in full 
breeding plumage (figured by Gould as Saxicola montana), 
as well as in intermediate stages, leaving, to my mind, no 
doubt as to the necessity of suppressing this latter supposed 
species. 
Accentor nipalensis was met with at the Pangong Lake. 
This is by no means, as seems to have been supposed, a 
purely eastern form ; it is common in winter in the valley 
of the Sutlej, at least as far down as Kotegurh. The 
Robin Accentor [A. rubeculoides) , again, also assigned by 
Gould and Jerdon to Nepaul alone, was abundant in 
October throughout Ladak ; but for further particulars of 
this, and all the other species observed by the Expedition, I 
must refer the reader to the next chapter. 
Dr. Henderson, in his remarks on the physical aspect of 
the countries traversed by the Expedition, has divided the 
route into six sections, each characterized by distinct 
natural features ; and in accordance with his division, I have 
prepared a table, which will be found below, showing in which 
of these several sections each species was observed, and 
indicating also from which of the other sections (although 
not there noticed by Dr. Henderson) I have received speci- 
mens of it. 
I feel that in these brief remarks I have done but scant 
justice to the materials which my kind friend Dr. Henderson, 
so laboriously amassed ; but with half my museum packed 
up and at a distance, with very few works of reference at 
hand, with but a few weeks in which to do the work, and 
with my time already fully occupied with public duties, I 
have been unable to do better, and can only crave the in- 
dulgence of brother ornithologists for the crude and imperfect 
account which I have presented. 
