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33. Emberiza huttoni, Blyth. 



Hutton's Bunting passes through the Pamir in gi'eat num- 

 bers at the end of August. 



34. Emberiza, sp. nov. (?) 



An intermediate form between E. hortulana and E. huttoni, 

 which appears to me new, but needs still closer examination 

 and comparison with E. schach, Bp., and immature E. hor- 

 tulana. My Pamir specimen, a female, was shot between the 

 rivers Ak-su and Alichur on the 31st August, duuing the 

 migration of E. huttoni. I have, besides, a male and female 

 from the Hangai range, near Oolias-sutas, in Mongolia, 

 where this bird breeds, and perhaps some other specimens 

 shot in different parts of Turkestan during the migration- 

 time, which I determined at the first glance as varieties of 

 E. hortulana. 



35. CaLANDRELLA BRACHYDACTYLA (Leisl.) . 



Some specimeus of the Short-toed Lark, or a near relative 

 of it, were found on the Pamir Alichur at the end of August. 

 They had moulted, which fact favours the supposition that 

 they breed there. 



36. Otocorys elwesi, Gould. 



The characteristics of Elwes's Shore- Lark lead to the sup- 

 position that it is the common ancestor of all the species of 

 Otocorys. It lives in Tibet and on the Pamir and Tianshan 

 tablelands, where it breeds. 



In the Pamir a subspecies with a rather long beak pre- 

 dominates ; but this difference is neither considerable nor 

 constant. 



37. Otocorys penicillata, Gould. 

 {O. bicornis, Ehrenb. ; O. scriba, Bp.) 



I established the identity of this bird with Gould^s Shore- 

 Lark from a comparison of all my Tian-shan specimens with 

 the original specimens of Hemprich, Gould, and Brandt. The 

 type of Bonaparte^s O. scriba was from Gould's collection, 

 and was obtained by Mr. Dickson near Erzeroum. 



This bird is most frequent in the Alai ; it is also often seen 



