Alticola stracheyi Thomas, 1880 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, 6:332.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Kashmir, Ladakh (as amended by Hinton, 1926:322) .

DISTRIBUTION: Himalayas from E Kashmir in N India east through S Xizang (Tibet) and N Nepal to N Sikkim.

SYNONYMS: cricetulus, bhatnagari.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Alticola . Included in A. stoliczkanus by Schwarz (1939), Gromov and Polyakov (1977) and Corbet (1978c), but reinstated as a species by Feng et al. (1986), which reflects Hinton's (1926) earlier arrangement.