262. 
ORNITHOLOGY. 
encamping ground, until the expedition descended to the 
Karakash river. It was never met with below 14,000 feet, 
and often as high as 17,000; at these great heights it was 
almost the only resident bird met with. [G. H.] 
This species is not confined to Ladak. I have two speci- 
mens from Sikkim, one killed by Captain Elwes, at Kangra 
Lama, at an elevation of 15,000 feet. [A. 0, H.'] 
752 (ter). Montifringilla Adamsi,* Gould. 
This species was met with in June, about Karbu, Ladak ; 
but all the specimens then obtained had black bills. 
narrowly except on the outer web towards their bases. Winglet, 
primaries and secondaries, and primary greater coverts dark brown, paler 
and greyer on the inner webs, and all margined exteriorly, the later 
primaries and the secondaries more broadly, and the rest very narrowly, 
w^ith white or yellowish white. Lesser most of the median coverts, 
whitey brown. Chin brown, throat and breast whitey brown, becoming 
albescent on the abdomen, and nearly pure white on the lower tail coverts. 
Some few of the feathers of these parts slightly darker shafted. Wing 
lining and axillaries slightly greyish white. The female has the front of 
the head somewhat less dark, and has less of the crimson on the rump. 
She is also slightly smaller. 
* Montifringilla Adamsi (Gould). 
Dimensions. — Length, 6°6 to 7'; expanse, 12 to 12*5; wing, 4*1 to 
4"5 ; second primary longest; 1st, 0*08 ; third, O'l j fourth, 0'45 ; fifth, 
0*75; sixth, 1'05 shorter. Tail from vent, 2 6 to 2-85; exterior tail- 
feathers, 0*2 shorter than central ones. Expanse 12*3 to 12*8. Tarsus, 
0*8. Foot, greatest length, 1*5 ; greatest width, 1*0 ; mid-toe to root of 
claw, 0*6 ; its claw, straight from root to point, 0*17 to 0*25. Hind toe, 
similarly, 0*26 ; its claw 0*25 to 0*4. In old birds the claws get worn 
down very short. Bill at front 0*48 to *52. 
Desceiption. — Legs, feet, and claws, blacky irides brown; bill, black 
in summer, orange yellow dusky on culmen and brown at tip in winter. 
Plumage. — In summer : the whole of the top of the head, nape, back 
scapulars, and rump, pale brown, darker and greyer on the head, paler 
and duller on the back of the neck ; central upper tail-coverts, blackish 
brown ; lateral ones, white. Central tail-feathers blackish brown, 
scarcely perceptibly margined with fawn. Lateral tail-feathers, pure 
white, tipped for about 0*25 with blackish brown very narrowly margined 
with fawn. Lesser wing coverts and tertiaries nearly unicolorous with 
the portions of the back they adjoin. Greater coverts of primaries white 
except the tips and bases, which are greyish brown. Secondary greater 
coverts, broadly tipped white. Primaries and secondaries, very dark 
brown, the earlier of the former narrowly margined on the outer webs 
