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ORNITHOLOGY. 
the hill race is distinctly separable from A. triborhyncha, by- 
its smaller size^ shorter wing, proportionately longer bill, 
less ample crest, and paler colour. \_A. O. H.] 
769 (ter). Galerita magna, Hume. (PI. xxx.) 
This species, which I can nowhere find described, closely 
resembles G. cristata, but it exceeds it in size, and has 
in the adult a fuller and longer crest. Its general tint is 
more sandy rufescent, more of a desert colour, than any 
specimens of G. cristata met with in the plains of India. 
[A. O. H.] 
This species was common in fields in the plains of Yar- 
kand. Some of the specimens obtained in August were 
quite young birds, and it is probable that it is a permanent 
resident and breeds there. 
A male, not quite mature, measured : length, 8 0 ; 
expanse, 14 0; tail, 3 0; bill at front, 0*7; wing, 4*4; and 
the wings when closed reached to within 1 of end of tail. 
Another, an adult but moulting : has the wing, 4*45 ; and 
the bill at front, 0' 75 ; a female, was : length, 7'15 ; ex- 
panse, 13. The legs and feet are flesh-coloured. The 
bill is fleshy, brownish on the culm en. 
The Yarkandis call it " Toghai:' [G. ^.J 
778. Sphenocercus sphenurus (Vigors). 
This species was common near the Chenab between J amu 
and Banihal ; it was not observed in the valley of Kashmir. 
[G. i/.] 
It is very common throughout the British Himalayas, 
south of the first snowy ranges, at heights of from 5000 to 
7000 feet. It is one of those birds rarely found beyond 
the first line of snow. This species breeds from April to 
June, laying two or occasionally three pure white glossy 
eggs, which vary from 1*15 to 1*26 in length, and from 
0'82 to 0 95 in breadth. The nests are composed of coarse 
and small dry twigs, loosely laid on some forked branch, 
and are most common at heights of from 4000 to 5000 feet. 
As my friend Mr. Thompson remarks in epist., "the fruits 
of the Myrica sapinda or Kaphul which ripens about the 
