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absolute desert some 14,000 feet above the sea level, at the 
foot of the Suket Pass, Ladak, a few miles south of what 
may be considered the boundary of Yarkand. The ther- 
mometer stood at 23° Fahrenheit when the bird was shot. 
The sex of the specimen obtained was not recorded ; the only 
notes made at the time were as follows : Length, 6*25 ; the 
tail from vent, 3 ; the expanse, 10'5. The legs and feet dark 
ashy, bill blackish, fleshy at base of lower mandible. Iris 
dark brown. [G. H.^ 
The plumage of this specimen is a shade paler than that 
of European and Indian specimens of the same species with 
which we compared it ; in other respects the birds were 
absolutely identical. I may mention here that since pro- 
curing the specimen, which I sent for comparison to Mons. 
Jules Yerreaux, a notice of which has appeared in the 
Ibis, I have received several other specimens from the 
Sambhur Lake and other parts of Western Rajpootana, 
proving that the European Flycatcher is a regular winter 
visitant to Western Continental India. [A. O. H.^ 
301. Eumyias melanops (Vigors). 
Of this very common Flycatcher only a single specimen 
was observed, and that in Kashmir. [G. H.~\ 
The bird is by no means so plentiful in this latter 
province as in other low Himalayan Valleys, and beyond 
the Zoji-la the route lay through country little suited to 
Flycatchers. [A. O. H.] 
dingy fulvous white ; head, nape, cheeks, ear-coverts, back, and scapulars, 
pale earthy or greyish-brown ; the feathers of the head with darker brown 
central streaks not extending to the tips, and those of the forehead tinged 
with the fulvous colour of the lores. The rump in some uniform with 
the back, in others slightly darker. Wings and tail brown, paler and 
greyer on the tertials and laterals, all the feathers margined with brownish 
white, the greater secondary coverts and tertials most broadly so, the tail- 
feathers, except the exterior lateral ones, very inconspicuously so. Lower 
parts white, tinged with fawn colour towards the vent, and with narrow in- 
conspicuous grey -brown streaks on the breast. Axillaries and wing lining 
very pale rufous fawn, sides and flanks tinged faintly with the same colour 
and dull fulvous. [A. O. H.] 
