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50. LEPTOPCECILE SOPHIiE, Severtzoff. 



Female, adult, Thian-Shau Mountains, north of Kashgar, September 

 15, 1S03 ; 9,000 feet. "Bill and feet black ; irides red ; lengtli, 4| Incbes." 



51. PANURUS BIARMICUS SIBIRICUS (Bonaparte). 



Male, adult, juugle on Yarkaud Eivor, near Maralbaslii, Eastern 

 Turkestan, December 23, 1803. "Lengtli, 7 incbes." 



Male, adult, same locality and date. "Feet black; bill and irides 

 saffron yellow; lengtb, Og inches.'' 

 Male, adult, same locality and date. '' Length, G^ inches." 

 Female, adult, same locality and date. ''Length, GJ inches." 

 Female, adult, same locality and date. "Bill and irides saffron yel- 

 low; feet black; length, 6^ inches." 



Bonaparte's description of a pale form of I\ hlarmicus reputed to 

 occur in Kamtchatka probably refers to the present bird, and his name 

 sibiricKS would then be eligible for this form, at any rate until some 

 other pale form is discovered in Kamtchatka. 



Family LANIID.F. 



52. LANIUS HOMEYERI, Cabanis. 



Female, adult, The Syrt, Thian-Shau Mountains, November 1, 1893; 

 0,000 feet. " Bill and feet black : base of lower mandible fleshy ; length, 

 llf inches." 



Male, adult. The Syrt, Thian-Shau Mountains, November 1, 1893; 

 6,000 feet. "Irides dark brown; length, 11^ inches." 



Female, immature, Karatol, 30 miles southofAksu, Eastern Turkes- 

 tan, November 21, 1893. " Length, 10| inches." 



Female, immature, Pishak Sindi, Kashgar River, Eastern Turkes- 

 tan, December 12, 1893. "Length, 10^ inches." 



53. LANIUS ISABELLINUS, Ehrenberg. 



Male, immature, near Killian, Eastern Turkestan, August 10, 1893. 

 "Feet dull black; upper mandible brown, lower mandible pale dirty 

 yellow; irides dark brown; length, 11 inches." 



Female, immature, Kashgar, Eastern Turkestan, September 9, 1893. 



Male, immature, Thian-Shan Mountains, north of Kashgar, Septem- 

 ber 11, 1893; 7,000 feet. "Length, 7i inches." 



Female, adult, Thian-Shan JVLountaius, north of Kashgar, September 

 13,1893; 9,000 feet. "Feet black, soles whitish; upper mandible dark 

 horn brown, lower mandible brownish flesh. Length, 7 inches; irides 

 dark brown." 



Family SYLVIID^. 



54. ACROCEPHALUS AGRICOLA (Jerdon). 

 Immature, below the Suiok Pass, Thian-Shan Mountains, September 

 28,1893; 10,000 feet. "Upper mandible horn black; lower mandible 

 pale flesh; feet pale brownish llesh; length, 5 inches." 



