Ochotona roylei (Ogilby, 1839) . Royle's Ulus. Botany...Himalaya, vol. 2, 69, pl. 4 [erroneusly labeled "Lagomys alpinus"].

TYPE LOCALITY: "Choor Mountain, Lat. 30. Elev. ll,500[ft], [60 mi. (96 km) N of Saharanpur], Punjab, India .

DISTRIBUTION: Himalayan Mtns in NW Pakistan and India to Nepal; adjacent Tibet (China).

STATUS: Currently not under threat.

SYNONYMS: angdawai Biswas and Khajuria, 1955; hodgsoni, Blyth, 1841; mitchelli Agrawal and Chakraborty, 1971; nepalensis Hodgson, 1841; wardi Bonhote, 1904 .

COMMENTS: Includes angdawai and mitchelli, but not forresti and himalayana, which are here provisionally considered distinct; see comments therein. O. hodgsoni is traditionally placed here, but based on the original description may be assigned to nubrica .