DETAILED LIST OF BIRDS. 
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slightly darker brown, narrowly margined and tipped with 
paler brown. Chin, cheeks, and ear-coverts, and entire 
lower parts, dingy fulvous white. The ear-coverts slightly 
more tinged with fulvous or pale fulvous brown, and silky. 
The female has more of a rufescent tinge on the back 
and scapulars than the male, and has the quills a darker 
hair-brown, the tertiaries and some of the secondaries more 
distinctly margined with a pale rufescent brown. In both 
sexes the bastard wing appears to be a dark hair-brown. 
Podoces humilis. 
It will be noticed that the female is smaller in most of her 
dimensions, and has the bill conspicuously shorter. 
680. Pyrrhocorax alpinus, Vieillot. 
The Alpine Chough was seen occasionally in the same 
localities as the common one in the Sind valley and 
Ladak, but was much less plentiful. Near Shergul, how- 
ever, in November, it was seen in immense flocks, but so 
wild as to be unapproachable. Like the common Chough, 
the yellow -billed species was seen either feeding in cultivated 
lands or else on the berries of the Hippophae rhamnoides, 
[G. H.-] 
