268 ORNITHOLOGY. 
732. Pyrrhula aurantiaca, Gould. 
This beautiful species was very common about tbe head 
of the Sind valley. It was met with on the road side in 
June and in October^ and was quite tame and fearless. It 
associated in small flocks about six in number and flew from 
bush to bush^ feeding on berries. It was met with in no 
other locality. The elevation at which it occurred was 
from about 7000 to 8000 feet. [G. H.'] 
7d>7. Carpodacus rubicilla, Guldenstadt. 
One fine specimen^ marked a female at the time, but ob- 
viously, I think, a male in full summer plumage, with a wing 
4*75 in length, was obtained on the 9th October near the 
Pangong lake. Two young birds of the same species, clearly 
fledged but recently, were obtained on the 13th and 15th 
August at the Arpalak river. It is therefore probable that 
we have here one at least of the breeding places of this 
rare species. 
My notes of the first -mentioned bird are : length, 8 ; 
tail from vent, 4; expanse, ]3"75; foot, greatest length, 
1*25 ; wings when closed reach to within 1-5 of end of tail. 
Legs and feet black ; bill ashy. Of one of the young birds I 
note : length, 7'25 ; tail from vent, 3*25 ; expanse, 12 ; legs 
and feet brown ; bill yellowish ; irides brown. [G. H.'\ 
The newly fledged young of this species has never, I 
believe, been described. It has the whole head, neck, 
breast, back and scapulars dull pale earthy brown, more or 
less yellowish in places, the feathers very lax and showing 
everywhere a great deal of the basal, three-fourths of the 
feathers of which are a pale blue grey. Abdomen similar but 
paler, lower tail-coverts brownish white, the shafts brown. 
The wings are pale hair-brown, most of the quills and 
coverts more or less broadly margined with dull pale yel- 
lowish earthy brown, only the earlier primaries excessively 
narrowly margined at and near their tips with brownish 
white. Tail pale hair-brown, exterior web of outer late- 
rals fawny white, other feathers margined on their outer 
webs with pale yellowish brown. \_A. O. i/.] 
