Alticola roylei Gray, 1842 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 10:265.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Kumaon .

DISTRIBUTION: W Himalayas; recorded only from N Kumaon and N Himachal Pradesh (Lahul region) of N India.

SYNONYMS: cautus .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Alticola . Once considered the broadest-ranging species of Alticola in central Asia (Corbet, 1978c), but with the removal of argentatus and its synonyms (Rossolimo, 1989), the geographic and morphological definition of roylei conforms to that presented by Hinton (1926).