AYES, 
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No - 635. 
Deli, September 5, 1873 
the 
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x young bird in full moult into its first winter plumage, which evidently resembles 
immature plumage, but is much more rufescent, all the edges of the wing-coverts 
]\t q 5^ tail-feathers being tawny buff. 
‘ 51 - Nor th of Leli, 13,000 feet, September 8, 1873. 
June at. T) 1 ^ Diddulph’s specimens were collected between the 16th of May and the 30th of 
°Ur ret Ul . 1 ^ ar ’ Daskasu, and Leh. He writes : — “ We first saw it about the Eota-la. On 
V kes C fl Y akhan we noticed a few individuals on the passes between Sarikol and 
all abo(.p n £ a ^ so J° un J it on both sides of the Diga-la in June, and it was very common 
die spec i ^ eil ^ ers °n sa Y s that this species was met with in June about Kharbu in Ladak ; all 
fl°ek s ' 1K:ns then obtained had black bills. Returning in October it was observed in large 
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° Cc Urr(, i f 6 Same locality, and all the specimens then procured had yellow bills. 
tv, 0 at a hei S h t of about 13,000 feet at the Eota Pass. 
Scum 
They 
at ail e , J ^ uu y say s : — “ This Pinch was met with on the return journey on the Ohuchu Pass, 
s uit a ]-j] {i £ l " L '' m °l- H,700 feet. Further on, in the hills of Eastern Turkestan, it was seen in 
ele vati 0ll 
)} e 1 ' vv ^ «-a tuoi yj j_l, J-Li. l 
re plaeed £ Ca 1 ^ es » hut at heights of about 14,000 
Q n h&matopygia." 
feet and above it seems to be entirely 
the 0ri |y j (! . ~^ s t of August, Dr. Stoliczka writes in his ‘Diary ’ : — “ Going up the Namika-la 
h°eks ) feed' Was M-ontifringilla adamsi. Biddulph and I shot several ; they were in 
°hirp i) c JU S a od running on the ground like Larks, rising somewhat similarly with a loud 
lu g and running on the ground like Larks, rising somewhat similarly with a loud 
°^ipiukgi LL ,v 
alpicola. 
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Montif!- Jnmla > Ball- Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 20 (1811). 
Mc^ mgilla niv nlis 
Boie; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 242. 
a lpicola, Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 248 (1876) ; Seeb. Ibis, 1883, p. 10; Severtz. t. c. p. 60 ; 
K 0 . 1 C e ’ 0rnis b m- P- 480 (1887) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 260 (1888). 
ex y ' ^" as ^ ;asu Eass, May 15, 1874. — Length 7 inches, wing 4'7, tail 3, tarsus 0'95; 
l£ v ^ s e E 3 ' 7 ; bill from front 0'52, from gape 0-63; length of foot 1'4. Iris light 
U'iuo^ 3r ° Wn ; hill black ; feet blackish brown. Middle toe 0 - 8 inch, hind toe 0 - 6 ; 
V lea eh within 05 inch of end of tail. 
16/2. Kaskasu Pass, May 15, 1874. 
°h the Tu 1 .',^°^ Czk;a,s ‘Diary’ he writes that he had observed this same “ white Montifringilla 
r;ia ge 0 f Eass, north of Chakmak.” The occurrence here recorded extends the known 
0 species considerably to the eastward. 
E> ■ . X On.LA sordid a. 
(nec L.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 75 (1873). 
Biddy [ Stoliczka, J. A. S. Beng. xxxvii. p. 63 (1868) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 172 (1876) ; 
p, gg * his, 1881, p. 88; Scully, ibid. p. 579; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, 
Frin Sillaud a FaUn ' Brit - Ind o Birds, P- 248 (1890). 
^ r/ *«er p n / ne ' n01 icola (nec Hodgs.); Hume & Henderson, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 264 (1873). 
Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 64, 116 (1873). 
sordida. 
Uuda altaica 
Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 266 (1888) . 
, Eversm. ; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 60. 
