Alticola argentatus (Severtzov, 1879) . Izv. Soc. Nat. Anthrop. Etnogr., 8, 2:82.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan, Chimkentskaia Obi., Karatau Mtns, Mashat .

DISTRIBUTION: Mountainous region from Xinjiang, NW China (Ma et al., 1987), southwest through the Dzhungarski Alatau, the Talasskiy Alatau, the Tien Shan, Pamirs, and into the mountains of N Afghanistan, N Pakistan, and N India.

SYNONYMS: alaica, argurus, blanfordi, gracilis, lahulis, leucura, longicauda, longicaudata, parvidens, phasma, rosanvi, saurica, shnitnikovi, severtzovi, subluteus, villosa, worthingtoni .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Alticola . Included in A. roylei by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Corbet (1978c), but separated as a species by Rossolimo (1989), who recognized blanfordi, phasma, severtzovi, subluteus, and worthingtoni as subspecies. Attribution of synonyms follows Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987).