Stray Feathers - a Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies September 1881

In the north-west corner of the Cashmere dominions where the Indus after a north-north-west course of nearly five hundred miles makes a sudden turn to the south the Gilgit river joins the great stream on the right bank after draining a very large extent of country north and west of the Indus. [...] Further east still is its third and largest affluent the Hunza river of which one of the branches rises on the southern slope of the mountains that enclosed the Tagdooughash Pamir and the other on the western slope of the mountains that form the watershed between it and the valley of the Yarkand river. [...] One a male is in the plumage figured by Dresser in the Birds of Europe " except that the whole of the sides of the neck and the throat are brown each feather centred darker but palest in the middle of the throat. [...] One of the former shot in April is in the uniform choclate stage of plumage with the throat and top of the head and nape buff sharply defined ; the feathers on the head dark-centred while those of the throat are merely inconspcuously dark-shafted the lower ones being nearly white. [...] It corresponds exactly with the original description except in two points : there is no trace of white in the centre of the feathers of the back ; and the primaries instead of having the yellow interspaces marked with nothing more than a few minute dots of brown have dense mottlings on the outer web which are almost entirely wanting on the inner.