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the 16th of September, Karakash Yalley on the 15th of October, Kirog V alley on the way 
U P to the Pamir on the 24th of March, and Aktash on the 4tlx of April. 
Dr. Henderson writes: — “This handsome Redstart was met with all through Ladak, 
°th in going and returning, and was especially abundant on the return journey in October, 
t Was found as high as 17,800 feet on the snow in the Chang Pass, and again on the other 
°f the plateau it was observed in Yarkand, from about 15,000 feet to the foot of the 
but not in the plains.” 
Dr. Scully gives the following note “ This Redstart was very common during the 
youths of August and September in the mountains, at elevations of from 10,000 to 18,000 
e( A but was never met with in the plains of Eastern Turkestan. It frequents the neigh- 
bourhood of streams generally, hopping about on the stones and amongst the small bushes. 
. e Kirghis at Kichik Yailak say that this bird breeds during the months of June and July, 
u the high mountains near their encampment, and their name for it is Ivizil Kurgenak, 
e ■ ‘ Red Kestrel ’ ! ” 
Colonel Biddulph has forwarded the following note : — “ I first lound this Redstart at 
and all the way to the Pangong Lake, up to an altitude of 14,000 feet, in September, 
terwards I met with it in the valley of the Karakash, and again on going up to the Pamir, 
in Wakhdn, but not in the plains of Turkestan. We found them generally in rocky 
kiound, more or less covered with bushes, on which they often perched. I did not obseive 
la t they had any predilection for water.” 
Genus RHYACORNIS. 
RhYACOUNIS fuliginosa. 
Ruticilla fuliginosa (Vig.) ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 212, pi. xv. (1873) ; Prjev. in Rowley’s 
Orn. Misc. ii. p. 177 (1877). 
Rhyacornis fuliginosa, Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 98 (1890). 
1 Dr. Henderson procured this species at Punch, below the Haji Pir Pass, on the way 
from Kashmir 
Genus CYANECULA. 
Cyanecula clerulecula. 
fasciola suecica, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 65 (1873). 
yunecula suecica (necL.); Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 214 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 18/5, p. 341, 
Blanf. Fast. Persia, ii. p. 169 (1876) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 145 (18/6) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, 
p. 58; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 65; Scully, t. c. p. 447 ; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 108; Severtz. Ibis, 
1883, p. 68 ; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 84 ; Scully, J. A. S. Beng. lvi. p. 82 
(1887) ; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 99 (1889). 
^ythacus ccerulecuhis (Pall.) ; Seebolim, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 308 (1881) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 
(2) Zool. v. p. 73 (1889). 
yanecula ccerulecula, Prjev. in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 180 (18/ 7) ; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 37 
(1885). 
^°- 489, . Kharbu, Ladak, August 21, 1873.— Length 6 inches, wing 2- 9, tail 2' 25, 
tarsus 1-1 ; expanse 9; bill from front 0'4, from gape 0'7 ; length of loot P45. Bill 
black ; feet horny black. 
°. 495. Kharbu, August 21, 1873. 
