PBOCEEDIXGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 589 



kestaii, December 2,1893. '' Irides yellow: length. 23 inches; weight, 

 1^ pounds/' 



Female, adult, jiinctiou of Aksu and Kashgar rivers, Eastern Tur- 

 kestan, December 2, 1803. "Length, 23i inches; weiglit, 1 i)ound 7 

 ounces." 



Male, adult, jungles on Kashgar Elver, 100 miles below Maralbashi, 

 Eastern Turkestan, December 4, 1803. "Length, 34i inches." 



Male, adult, Kokchall, east of ^Laralbashi, F.astern Turkestan, Feb- 

 ruar}^ 12, 1804. " Length, 34i inches.'' 



Family AEDEID^E. 



86. HERODIAS ALBA (Linnaeus.) 



Male, adult, jungles on Yarkand liiver, east of Maralbashi, Eastern 

 Turkestan, January 4, 1804. "Bill orange yellow: legs black; irides 

 pale yellow; length, 42^ inches."' 



Family AKATID^E. 



87. TADORNA CASARCA (Linnaeus). 



Male, adult, Kashgar Elver, near Maralbashi, Eastern Turkestan, 

 March 1, 1804. "Bill and feet black; irides dark brown; length, 23i 

 inches; weight, 2^ pounds." 



88. NYROCA NYROCA (Guldenst&dt). 



Male, adult, near Maralbashi, Eastern Turkestan, March 2, 1894. 

 "Feet slaty, webs black: bill black; irides white; length, 17 inches." 



Family CHAEADEIID.E. 



89. yEGIALITIS DUBIA ( Scopoli). 



Male, adult, Sarikol, Eastern Turkestan, April 0, 1804; 10,400 feet. 



90. iEGIALITIS PAMIRENSIS, new species. 



Tyjie.—l^o. 150160, U.S.N. M., male, adult; Tagdumbash Pamir, June 

 16, 1804 ; 12,000 feet. Crown, back, scapulars (tertiaries slightly darker), 

 pale grayish brown, shafts of feathers darker; tail and wings somewhat 

 darker brown ; outer rectrix white except an almost obsolete dusky spot 

 on inner Aveb near end; rest of tail feathers narrowly tipped with 

 white, and (except middle pair) largely white on inner web; primaries 

 largely white on inner web; three innermost primaries with an irregu- 

 lar rectangular spot on the outer web near end; greater wing-coverts 

 with broad white tips; some of the feathers of primary coverts nar- 

 rowly tipped with white; longer secondaries with white outer webs; 

 under wing-coverts pure white, without visible darker centers to the 

 feathers. Throat, cheeks, abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts pure 



