1. srRRn.vpiEs, 5 



aud the Kirf^liiz Steppes iu the west, north beyoud Lake Baikul, 

 and south throughout Mougolia aud Turkestan. 

 Periodically great numbers visit Europe. 



«) ^- cJ 2 imru. st. North A>ia. 



V. 2 ad. sk. Altai. Gould Coll. 



d, e. (S ad. st. ; 5 inmi- Kirghiz Steppes. Purchased. 



sk. 



/»//• 6 ad. et imm. sk. Turkestan. Tweeddale Coll. 



h,i. (S $ ad. sk. Lewes, Sussex, Jan. Puichased. 



k. S ad. St. Norfolk, June. F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 



/. 2 ad. .-k. King's Lynn, Oct. Victor Ames, Esq. [P.]. 



m. 2 ad. St. Cambridge, June. F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 



»j. cf ad. sk. Easington, Lincoln- Dr. H.B. Hewetson[P.j. 



shire, Oct. 



o-r. d 2 ad. St. Mouth uf the Plumber. Dr. 11. B. Ilewetson [P.^. 



«. $ ad. sk. Island of Tiree, S. Lt.-Col. L. H. Lby [P.]. 



Hebrides, Aug. 

 t. (j" ad. sk. No locality. 



u. c? ad. sk. No locality. Gould Coll. 



V. Skeleton. Near Pekin. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



w. Skeleton. No locality. Salviu-Godman Coll. 



.r. c? sternum and Cambridge, June. Mr. S. P. Saville [P.]. 



shoulder-jjirdle. 



2. Syrrhaptes tibetanus. 



Syrrhaptes tibetanus, Gould, P. Z. S. 18-50, p. 92 [Ladak] ; id. B. 

 Asia,\\. pi. 61 (1850) ; Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. -502, & 18.39, p. 180 ; 

 Gray, List B. v. p. 5 (1867) ; Hend. ^- Humv, Lahore to Yarkand, 

 p. 279 (1873) [Karakash Valley] ; Prjev. Momjolia, ii. p. 14 ( 1876) ; 

 id. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 384 (1877) i Stepjies of Koko-Nor 

 & N. Thibet] ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 263 ; IItt7)ie, S/r. F. vii. 

 pp. 162, 425 (1878) ; Huitie. ^^- Marshall, Game Birds Ind. i. p. 43, 

 pi. (1879) [Sutlej Valley]; Sevcrtz. Ibis, 1.-^83, p. 71 [Pamir]; 

 Fleske, Mhn. Ac. St. Petersb. (7) xxxvi. no. 3, p. 47 (1888); 

 Sharpe, Second Yark. Miss., Aves, p. 119 (1891) [Chagra, Gogra]. 



Adult male. Forehead, lores, cheeks, and chin white, with black 

 shafts ; sides of tho head, throat, and a baud round the nape buff- 

 yellow. Top of the head black, barred -with Avhite. Chest, sides, 

 and back of the neck white, with narrow, wavy, transverse bars 

 of black, the ground-colour gradually shading into vinaceous on the 

 upper back, while the black bars become mere vermiculatious. 

 Wing-covert.s, scapulars, and tertiarics vinaceous buff, minutely 

 vermiculated witli black, the inner webs of the scapulars with large 

 subtcrminal black blotches, nearly hidden in fresh-moulted specimens, 

 but forming a large triangular interscapular patch in worn speci- 

 mens ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts whitish, somewhat 

 coarsely vermiculated with black. Primaries, secondaries, and 

 greater wing-coverts black ; the inner pnmaries with a somewhat 

 extensive terminal patch of whitish buff, while the secondaries have 

 more or less of the outer web (less in the inner and more in the 

 outer)similarly coloured to the tertiarics. Axillarics black. Upper 

 breast greyish white ; belly, flanks, legs, aud feet white ; under 



