134 A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY 
Bill, blackish, extreme tip of upper mandible whitish horny ; 
lower mandible and sides of upper brownish at base; iegs and 
feet, dirty yellow. The testes were small, and the stomach con- 
tained more than one dismembered beetle. 
2. Specimen found lying dead and perfectly dessicated 
amongst stones near the Karakash river at Gulgun Shah. 
This species is said to be common in Khokand and Western 
Turkestan, where it is called Kok Kargha, the ‘ Blue Crow ;’ 
it only passes through Eastern Turkestan. 
The first specimen was obtained at Sulaghz Langar in August 
and appeared to be quite unknown to the natives. Later in the 
same month, a second specimen was found dead near the Kara- 
kash river; both birds had evidently been migrating south- 
wards. 
158A.—Picus leucopterus, Salv. 
?. Beskant, 6th February.—Length, 8°1; wing, 5:05; tail, 
3:5; tarsus, 0°82; bill, at front, 1°17. Bill, legs, feet, and 
claws, black. 
This Woodpecker was seen near Yarkand during the winter 
only and then was far from common. 
It frequented large trees growing near Mazars (shrines) and 
the only specimen I collected was shot at Beshkant in February, 
In the summer it is said to move up northwards to the forest 
region in the neighbourhood of Aksu. The Turki name for this 
species is Sokochak, i. e. ‘the Striker.’ 
199.—Cuculus canorus, Liz. 
(1). Four males, shot in May at Yarkand, measured and weighed. 
—Length, 12°8 to 13°85; expanse, 23 to 24; wing, 8°5 to8:9 ; 
tail, 7 to 7°7; tarsus, 0°8 to 1:0; bill, from gape, 1°15 to 1:3; 
closed wings fall short of tail, 1:85 to 2:0; weight, 3°2 oz. to3:7 
oz. Bill, upper mandible and tip of lower, black; base of 
lower mandible, greenish; irides, yellow or yellow straw color ; 
edges of gape and eyelids, yellow; legsand feet, yellow; claws, 
yellowish horny. 
(2). 2 Yarkand, 25th April—Length, 14; expanse, 
94-4; wing, 8°75; tail, 7:1; tarsus, 0:95; bill, from gape, 
1:32; closed wings fall short of tail, 15; weight, 4:50z. Bill, 
upper mandible and tip of lower, black; lower mandible, green- 
ish yellow at base; interior of mouth, red; irides and edges of 
eyelids, yellow ; legs and feet, yellow; claws, brownish horny. 
(3). Two females, in immature ferruginous plumage, shot in 
June near Yarkand, measured and weighed.—Length, 12:3 to 
13:2; expanse, 22°8 to 23°5; wing, 8 to 8°5; tail, 6°6 to 6'9 ; 
tarsus, 0°9; bill, from gape, 1:15 to 1:2; closed wings fall 
