30 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



the spring it was particularly common. They were generally in small parties, the individuals 

 of which, however, were a good deal scattered. They usually perched about on bushes. I 

 never remember hearing any song, nor did I see them in fields/' Dr. Henderson obtained 

 three specimens on the banks of the Arpalik Eiver, in Hill Yarkand, a short distance from 

 where the plains commence. 



Genus MONTIPRINGILL A. 

 62. MONTIFRINGILLA ADAMSI. 



Montifringilla adamsi, Moore, MS. ; Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 482, 1859, p. 178, pi. 156 ; Hume & Hen- 

 derson, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 262 (1873) ; Stohczka, Str. F. ii. p. 463 (1874) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. 

 p. 172 (1876); Prjev. in Eowley^s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 289 (1877); Severtz. Ibis, 1883, pp. 60,'81; 

 Prjev. Ibis, 1884, p. 244; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 261 (1888) ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind ' 

 Birds, ii. p. 246 (1890). 



No. 491. Kharbn, Ladak, August 21, 1873.— Iris light brown ; bill horny blackish, 

 yellowish at base of lower mandible; feet black. Length 7*2 inches, wing 4*45, 

 tail 3*0, tarsus 0-8 ; bill from front 0*5, from gape 0'62. 



Apparently an adult male after breeding, with the bill just beginning to turn yellow. 

 The terminal third of the inner secondaries only is white, and in most of them the 

 black or brown colour extends to the end of the outer web. The back is indistinctly 

 streaked with dark brown. 



No. 496. Kharbu, August 21, 1873. 



A male in worn breeding-dress, very similar to the foregoing. 



No. 499. Kharbu, August 21, 1873. 



Quite a young bird in ashy-brown plumage ; the head rather darker ashy ; back and 

 scapulars with broad longitudinal centres of dark brown ; rump and upper tail-coyerts 

 blackish, the lateral coverts white ; lesser and median coverts brown, the latter white 

 at the ends ; greater coverts white, with concealed blackish bases, externally washed 

 with pale tawny buff and dark brown at the ends ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 dark brown, the latter with a little concealed white patch on the inner web ; quills 

 dark brown, edged with ashy fulvous, the secondaries with pale tawny buflF, the inner 

 ones subterminally white on the inner web, this not extending to the end of the 

 feather ; tail-feathers brown, broadly margined with pale tawny buff, all but the centre 

 feathers with more or less white on the inner web, the outer ones almost entirely 

 white, with an external wash of tawny and a small tip of dark brown ; lores, eyelid, 

 and a streak along the sides of the hinder crown ashy whitish; sides of face whitish, 

 with a yellowish tinge, the ear-coverts pale ashy brown ; throat and breast light ashy, 

 the centre of the breast and abdomen yellowish white ; sides of body and flanks pale 

 fulvescent brown; under tail-coverts white, fulvescent at the ends; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white. 



No. 505. Kharbu, August 22, 1873. 



An adult bird, apparently a female, with the bill almost entirely yellow. The white 

 tips to the median wing-coverts are abraded, so that these appear to be brown like the 

 lesser coverts, and the primary-coverts are only white in the middle, there being a 

 broad basal as well as a terminal mark of dark brown. 



Nos. 520, 522. Lamaguru, August 23, 1873. 



An old male in worn breeding-plumage and a young male in first plumage. In the 

 latter the whole under surface of the body is washed with pale yellov\^ 



