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ORNITHOLOGY. 
more markedly greyish white^ presenting the appearance of 
a band like that of K. phcerucura, but neither so pure a 
white as in that species_, nor contrasting at all so strongly 
with the rest of the crown. 
Of the young birds the general style of colouring is of 
course the same as that of the females^ but the brown of 
the upper parts has a certain olive tint very different from 
the earthy line of the latter, and the lower parts have the 
feathers of the throat and breast darker and more or less 
indistinctly centered with a sort of golden buff, while the 
abdomen and vent are decidedly buff. [A. O. H.] 
499. Ruticilla erythrogastra (Guld.). Guldenstadt's 
Redstart. 
This handsome Redstart was met with all through Ladak 
both in going and returning, and was specially abundant 
on the return journey in October. It was found as high as 
17,800 feet on the snow in the Chang-la Pass, and again on 
the other side of the plateau it was observed in Yarkand 
from about 15,000 feet to the foot of the hills, but not in 
the plains. 
It frequents the neighbourhood of streams generally, 
where there is low jungle, hopping from twig to twig and 
on the ground, catching insects, but it does not appear, like 
its near relative Chamorrornis leucocephala, to feed imme- 
diately at the water^s edge or to venture on the rocks and 
stones in the midst of torrents. 
" Kuchkatch is the Kirghiz name for this species. 
[G. H.-\ 
On the ]4th September, at Kitchik Yilak, a young bird 
of this species, probably about two months old, was 
obtained. The tail and wings differ in no respect from 
the adult, but the whole of the head, neck, throat, and 
breast are covered with very loose lax feathers, bluish grey 
at the base, and yellowish brown towards the tips, a sort 
of mottled appearance being produced by the bases of the 
feathers showing through ; the lower abdomen, vent and 
lower tail coverts are pure buffy white. The specimen 
obtained on the 11th of July, on the top of the Chang-la 
