DETAILED LIST OF BIRDS. 
205 
while in certain others the P. rubicola type chiefly prevails ; 
this does not constitute a specific difference according to my 
ideas. [A. O. H.] 
486. Pratincolaferrea (Hodgson). (PL XII.) 
This very common, but hitherto apparently unfigured 
Himalayan species, was only observed by the Expedition at 
Bhiaiber, at the very foot of the hills leading into Kashmir 
from the plains. [G. H.~\ 
Though so common everywhere from Darjeling to 
Murree, south of the first snowy ranges, it is very rare 
beyond them, only occurring, as far as I 
have observed, in valleys of rivers that 
pass, like the Sutlej and Jhelam, through 
vast gaps in these ranges. It should 
certainly have been met with in Kashmir, 
as I have seen specimens obtained there 
in the valley of the Jhelam. The bill of 
this species is quite that of a typical 
Muscicapa, and though the legs and wings, 
and indeed habits, justify, perhaps, its 
location in the closest proximity with the p_ fe„ea (magnified), 
true Pratincola, I must confess that I 
consider it deserving of generic separation from such birds 
as the Stone and Whin Chats. I will, however, leave it to 
some of our foreign brethren to propose one of those purely 
classical and easily pronounceable generic names which their 
souls love, such as Jacamaralcyonides or its equivalent 
Galbalcyrhynchus. 
492. Saxicola atrogularis (Blyth). 
The Black-throated Wheatear was common in Ladak, 
from Karbu to Le, and, indeed, almost to the Pangong 
Lake, and again in the Lower Karakash Valley and the 
plains of Yarkand. A nestling was obtained on the 5th of 
August at Balakchi, on the Karakash, showing that the bird 
breeds in this neighbourhood. [G. HJ] 
A male killed on the 26th of June on the Namyikka Pass 
(1 2,000ft.) in Ladak, exhibits the characteristic breeding 
plumage which, as I long ago pointed out, Gould has 
