DETAILED LIST OF BIRDS. 
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This species is occasionally found in Ladak, and I have 
a specimen obtained somewhere in Northern Sikkim. It was 
originally described from " Erzeroum and Afghanistan/' 
\_A. O. i/.] 
MontifringiUa haematopygia^ (Gould). 
This species was first met with after crossing the Chang-la 
Pass above Le. From thence it was seen at almost every 
specimens. The feathers of the crown, back, and breast, centered darker. 
Axillaries, wing lining, abdomen, vent, and lower tail-coverts white, 
tinged slightly fulvous on the abdomen ; sides and flanks with a few faint 
yellowish brown streaks. Tail, (which is much forked, and has all the 
feathers, but specially the central ones, acutely pointed,) dark brown, 
greyer on the laterals; all but the central feathers, with the major portions 
of the outer webs white, and with the inner webs margined white, very 
broadly in the exterior laterals, and less and less broadly in each succeed- 
ing feather. Primaries and secondaries hair brown^ the former margined 
with pure white, most broadly in the fifth to the eighth, the latter tipped 
with somewhat yellowish white. The inner webs of both more or less 
broadly margined towards their bases with white. 
The rump is, in the male, pale vermilion pink ; in the female, uni- 
colorous with the back. The upper tail-coverts (which are rather long 
and very pointed,) are in both sexes a darker brown than the back, and 
are edged with white. 
I do not doubt that this is Linota hrevirostis, and that Moore's mea- 
surement of the wing is erroneous, but if he is correct our bird is distinct 
and might stand as Linota montanella. 
* MontifringiUa hcBmatopygia (Gould). 
Dimensions. — Length, 6*9 to 7*25 ; wing, 4*5 to 4*75 ; second 
primary longest, first, 0 1 ; second, 0'03 ; fourth, 0 25; fifth, 0 68; sixth, 
10 inch shorter. Tail from vent, 3*1 to 3"5. Exterior tail-feathers 
0 35 longer than central ones. Tarsus, 0 8 ; mid-toe to root of claw, 
0*65 ; its claw, straight from root to point, 0 25. Hind toe, similarly, 
0-28 ; its claw, 0 38. Bill at front, 0 43 to 0-48. (The females are slightly 
smaller than the males.) 
Description. — Bill, legs, and feet, black; irides brown. 
Plumage. — The male has the forehead and lores deep, almost blackish 
brown, the crown, cheeks, and ear-coverts somewhat paler and the hind 
head paler still, the colour fading gradually. Upper back again paler and 
the feathers more or less margined with pale brown, the scapulars pale 
grey brown, the feathers with narrow ill-defined darker brown central 
streaks. Mid-back pale greyish brown ; rump similar, but each feather 
tipped narrowly with crimson. Upper tail-coverts pale whitey brown, 
margined paler. Tail-feathers very dark brown, the exterior laterals with 
the whole, and the penultimate with nearly the whole of the outer webs, 
yellowish white. All the rest of the feathers margined with white very 
