DETAILED LIST OF BIRDS, 
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Northern Indian name (Turumtee) for Chiquera typus, Bp. 
[G. H.-\ 
Both Yarkand and Ladak birds are of the common 
European type — comparatively pale, full-sized birds, very 
different from the small, deep-tinted race, which is a per- 
manent resident in the Neilgheries and the Himalayas 
south of the Snowy Range. Strange to say, this race 
rarely visits the plains; it seems to remain for the most 
part nearly all the year round in the localities in which it 
breeds, while the innumerable Kestrels of the European 
type that hover over our plains during the cold season 
seem to come from beyond the Snowy Range. In June 
or July you meet with comparatively few Kestrels in the 
hills south of the high snowy ranges, and what are met 
with are all breeding, and belong to the deep-tinted race. 
In October these very hills abound with Kestrels, the great 
majority being of the European type ; and then again by 
the end of November these have almost entirely disappeared, 
having passed down to the plains. [A. O. H.I 
42. Haliaetus leucoryphus (Pallas). — Pallas^ Sea Eagle. 
Several specimens of this species were noticed between 
Yarkand and Kargallik. It was always in the neighbour- 
hood of water, and usually perched on the tops of earthy 
cliffs overlooking some stream. [G. H.~\ 
No specimen of this species was preserved, but there is no 
doubt of its identity. It has already been observed in the 
Crimea and other parts of the Black Sea, and is said to be 
common in the neighbourhood of the Caspian Sea. [_A. 0. //.] 
46. Buteo aquilinus (Hodgson). — The Upland Buzzard. 
A specimen which must belong to this supposed species 
was shot on the 17th November at Dharmsal, near 
Saidabad, on the road from Kashmir to the Plains. It 
was a female. In plumage it precisely resembles one of 
the stages of Buteo ferooe, and in its general dimensions 
(length, 25'5 ; tail, 10*5 ; expanse, 62'25) it agrees perfectly 
with that species ; but while the tarsus is 3*4 in length, it 
is feathered in front for 2 "2, and the bare portions of the 
tarsus and the foot are entirely covered with comparatively 
