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W. T. Blanford — Zoology of SiJcJcim. [No. 1, 
654 A. steophiatus, Hodgs. — I obtained at Yeomatong, about 12,000 
feet above the sea, a single specimen of wliat may be the young of this 
species. It differs in the breast being fulvous with broad black streaks 
instead of uniformly ferruginous. The claws too appear to be a little 
straighter. It is possible that this may be distinct, but it is at least equally 
probable that it is a young bird. 
I am indebted to Mr. W. S. Atkinson for an adult specimen of A. 
strophiatu# obtained on the Singalela range. 
656 A. lu r liKCUU)fi>KS, Hodgs. — This bird was only seen in the Upper 
Lachen valley above 14,000 feet, together with Leucosticte hcematopygia, 
Otocoris JElwesi, and other birds belonging evidently to the Tibetan fauna. 
Whole head and neck greyish brown, rather browner above, and greyer 
below, back feathers blackish brown with broad rufous brown margins, 
shoulder of wing greyish brown, the quills and coverts dark brown with 
rufous or fulvous brown margins, broader on the last secondaries and coverts, 
and both ranges of the latter with whitish tips, tail feathers the same colour 
as the quills with very slight pale edges, breast ferruginous, abdomen whitish, 
flanks fulvous with a few dark streaks ; iris clear pale brown, bill black, legs 
reddish brown. Dimensions taken before skinning : length 6 3, wing 2'9, 
tail 2'55, tarsus 0’95, bill from forehead 0 P 45 in. 
This bird was met with on hill sides, and had, like A. nipalensis, an 
especial preference for the piles of loose blocks of rock and stones so com- 
mon at high elevations and in glacier regions. 
Fringillidce. 
Mycebobas MEEATTOXANTTnis, (Hodgs.). — Two or three specimens were 
seen at moderate elevations in Northern Sikkim. For the only one I have 
I am indebted to Captain Elwes. It was shot at about 11,000 feet in 
the Lachung valley near Yeomatong. 
PrEEiitrLA eeythbocephala, (Vigors). — I shot one specimen at about 
11,000 feet on the Chola. range, and another at the same elevation in the 
Lachen valley. It appears not to he a common bird in Northern Sikkim. 
The head in the male is dull scarlet or bright ferruginous rather than 
dull crimson, chin black, and the white tips to be larger wing coverts are 
wanting in adults ; the primary coverts in both sexes arc dull black through- 
out, outer secondary coverts black with grey tips, the black decreasing in 
amount towards the body. 
A young male has the head greenish like the female, but with some 
dashes of red, the throat and flanks also greenish, middle of the breast 
ferruginous. 
Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill from forehead. 
Mal e 3 1 2.55 065 0'3G 
Female, 3- 25 0‘35 
