24 SECOND YAEKAND MISSION. 



fields, and perching on twigs and bushes. At Kichik Yailak, in August 1875, they were 

 numerous, and frequented the grassy hill-sides which abound there ; they would seldom fly, 

 but ran up hill very nimbly, making it rather difficult to bag them, considering that the 

 elevation was about 13,000 feet in the valleys. The Kirghiz say that this species, which they 

 call Zungak, is a permanent resident near their encampment, and feeds on worms and insects, 

 never on grain or seeds. They add also that the bird makes its nest in holes about the hill- 

 sides, breeding in June or July, and that the young birds are able to fly about the end of 

 September." 



Family OEIOLIDiE. 

 Genus ORIOLUS. 



47. Oriolus kundoo. 



Oriolus kundoo, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 87 ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 200, pi. xi. (1873) ; 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 187 ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 140 (1876) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 54; Scully, ibid, 

 p. 440; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 106; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 55; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. 

 p. 504 (1889). 



No. 132. Tinali, July 19, 1873. 



No. 199. Srinagar, July 29, 1873. 



Nos. 262-266. Srinagar, August 5, 1873. Native name '' Poshmol." 



No. 764. Sopur, July 26, 1873. 



Nos. 1696, 1698. Kizil, May 19, 1874. 



Nos. 1749-51, 1760. Yarkand, May 20, 1874. 



Dr. Henderson found the species very common in Kashmir, both going and returning. 

 It was met with again at Bora and Oi-Tograk, in the plains of Yarkand. " The Yarkandis 

 called it the ' Zar Guldar,' a name apparently borrowed from the Persians." 



Dr. Scully gives an interesting account of the nesting of the species in Yarkand. He 

 states that it is a seasonal visitant to the plains of Eastern Turkestan, arriving about the end 

 of April and migrating in September ; it is never seen in winter. The Yarkandi name for 

 the Oriole is Sopia, evidently given in imitation of its call. In Khokand the bird is called 

 Zar-ghaldak.'^ 



Dr. Stoliczka says that he saw the first pair in 1874, on the 18th of May, at Ighiz Yar. 



Pamily DICRURID^. 



Genus BUCHANGA. 

 48. BuCHANGA LONGICAUDATA. 



Dicrurus longicaudatus , ^' A. Hay ;^^ Jerd. Madr. Journ. xiii. pt. 2, p. 121 (1844) ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind 

 Birds, i. p. 314 (1889). 



Buchanga longicaudata (Hay) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 249 (1877) ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 436. 

 No. 59. Murree, June 29, 1873. 

 No. 79. Murree, July 2, 1873. 

 No. 165, juv. Sopur, July 26, 1873. 

 No. 261, Srinagar, August 5, 1873. 



