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over the lores, eyes, and ear coverts, white. A dark brown 
moustachial stripe from the gape under the eyes and ear- 
coverts. Immediately above this stripe and directly under 
the eye is a short white streak. The top and back of the 
head, pale reddish brown with a faint vinaceous tint towards 
the forehead, each feather with a narrow dark brown central 
shaft stripe. Back, pale, slightly rufous, brown : each 
feather similarly dark centered ; back of the neck, rump and 
coverts similarly coloured (the desert colour) but without 
any central dark streaks on the feathers. Quills, pale 
brown, the outward webs narrowly margined with dingy 
white or whitey-brown. A faint dusky streak through the 
lores to the eyes, cheeks and ear-coverts dirty rufescent 
white. Chin, throat, and lower parts, white, tinged on the 
breast, flanks, and tibial feathers with pale rufous bufi" ; 
lower wing-coverts, pale rufous buff" or buffy white ; tail, 
dark brown, with numerous narrow close-set obsolete bars 
only seen in certain lights ; the outer webs of the feathers 
paler brown and margined throughout their length with 
white. The shafts of the tail-feathers are brown above and 
white below, and the exterior laterals appear to have been 
tipped paler; all the feathers of the tail are very much 
abraded, and it is quite possible that in a more perfect 
specimen all the tail feathers would prove to have had paler 
or even white tips. \_A. O. H.'] 
554. Phylloscopus tristis (Blyth). 
Of this species, numerous specimens, and one of them a 
nestling, were obtained in Ladak in July. [G. H.'] 
In this latter country, at least, some of the birds that 
throng our Indian groves during the cold season doubtless 
breed ; other specimens, one of them also immature, were 
procured early in August in the Karakash Valley, and here 
also this species probably nests. This bird therefore, like so 
many other apparently feeble-winged species, is found on 
both sides of the vast irregular Karakoram mountain 
series, a chain 140 miles in width, and the lowest points of 
which are 13,000 feet above the sea level. The passes are 
nearly 19,000 feet, and to this latter height the bird must 
