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732 bis A.—Carpodacus mongolicus, Swinhoe 
(Erythrospiza incarnata, Severtsov.) 
3. Yarkand, 29th June.—Expanse, 10:2; wing, 3°4; tarsus, 
0°63; bill, from gape, 0°41; weight, 1 oz. 
Bill, light yellowish horn color ; irides, dark brown; legs and 
feet, yellow fleshy ; claws, dusky. 
This species is only a winter visitant to Eastern Turkestan, 
and even then is not common; it is said to migrate East- 
wards, towards China, in the spring. Near Yarkand it 
frequents a sort of desert bush called Kamghak on the seeds 
of which it appears to feed. It is rather a favourite cage- 
bird with the Yarkandis on account of its sweet song, and 
to this circumstance I am indebted for my specimen—pur- 
chased in June at Yarkand. The Turki name for the species 
is Tagh Tumochuk, ‘the mountain Tumochuk’—the latter being 
the name of Erythrospiza obsoleta ; so that the Yarkandis would 
appear to be d’accord with M. Severtsov as to the genus to 
which the bird belongs. 
737.—Carpodacus rubicilla, Guid. 
Two males measured and weighed.—Length, 7:4 to 7:5; ex- 
panse, 12°6 to 13°7; wing, 4°35 to 4:5; tail, 3-4 to 3:5; tarsus, 
0°85 to 0:9; bill, from gape, 0°65; closed wings fall short of 
tail, 1:5 to 1:7; weight, 1°5 oz. Bill, grey horny, with the 
upper mandible brownish above, the lower yellowish horny at 
base with a pink tinge in one specimen; irides, brown; legs 
and feet, brown or dusky brown; claws, dusky brown and dusky 
blackish. 
2. Shot between Mazar and Chuchu Pass, 16th August.— 
Length, 7:4; expanse, 12°7; wing, 4:3; tail, 3-6; tarsus, 0°85 ; 
bill, from gape, 0°67; closed wings fall short of tail, 1°55; 
weight, 1:250z. Bill grey horny, top of upper mandible slaty ; 
irides brown ; legs, feet, and claws, dusky brown. 
Two young males, shot at Tograsu 22nd August, measured and 
weighed.—Leneth, 6-0 to 67; expanse 11:9 to 12-4; wing, 
3°8 to 4:0; tail, 2°55 to 2°8; tarsus, 0°85 to 0-9; bill, from 
gape, 0°6; closed wings fall short of tail, 1-1 to 1°45: weight 
1:4 oz. to 1:48 oz. Bill grey horny, plumbeous above and 
in the older bird yellowish at base of lower mandible ; irides, 
brownish black; legs and feet, brownish dusky and brown 
fleshy ; claws, light brownish and brown. 
A pair of this fine species was first observed in a rocky 
gorge between Mazar and the Chuchu Pass; they hopped from 
the buckthorn bushes growing by the side of a small moun- 
tain stream and mounted up the hill side. After that, this 
_ species was often seen along the banks of the Karakash from 
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