32 SECOND YAEKAND MISSION. 



Nos. 392, 393, 399, 403. Mataian, August 14, 1873. 



No. 409. Mataian, August 15, 1873.— Length 6*25 inches, wing 3*8, tail 2*55, tarsus 0*75 • 



expanse 11-5 ; bill from front 0*43, from gape 0-53 ; length of foot 1*4. Iris lio^ht 



brown ; bill horny ; feet blackish horny. 

 No. 521. Lamaguru, August 23, 1873. 

 No. 720. Imm. Tanksi, September 17, 1873. 

 No. 1471, c? . Panjah, April 16, 1874.— Length 6*5 inches, wing 4, tail 2*78, tarsus 0*72 ; 



expanse 12; bill from front 0*4, from gape 0*5; length of foot 1-37, spread of foot l! 



Iris yellowish brown; bill dusky brown, pale at root and below; feet blackish 



brown. 

 Nos. 1491, 1493, 1495. Panjah, April 14-23, 1874. 

 No. 1544. Panjah, April 24, 1874. 

 No. 1581. Langarkish, April 26, 1874. 



Dr. Stoliczka's series contains apparently specimens of both sexes, and the series confirms 

 my account of the absence of difference between them. What the above-named author, in his 

 ' Diary,' took for the old hens must have been immature birds. On the 16th of May he 

 notes that the species was still migrating in large flocks near Sasstekke, but was beginnino' 

 to pair. On the march up the Zoji-la, he found this species common ''just on the pass. 

 It flies about in flocks, very much like a Lark feeding on the ground. It has a chirping voice, 

 not unlike that of Passer, and indeed replaces it, for we did not see one of the latter here." 



Colonel Biddulph procured a female bird at Sakti on the 14th of September, 1873, at 

 12,800 feet. Mr. Hume has appended to the specimen the following note : — '' This is much 

 more rufescent than winter and spring birds. The whole of the head, nape, neck, chin, 

 throat, face, and upper breast are streaked with dull ferruginous brown, darkest on the crown! 

 The tips of the median and greater coverts, margins to the tertiaries and later secondaries, 

 and centre tail-feathers bright rufous-buff; back more mingled with rufous ; tips to upper 

 tail-coverts rufescent and nearly obsolete." Colonel Biddulph also obtained specimens at 

 Panjah in Wakhan in April 1874, and also in the Kalustan valley on the 6th of June. He 

 sends usthefollowingnote:— - We found it on the Sakti Pass in September when going up, 

 and all along the Karakash valley. It was also common in Wakhan in April and in the 

 Kahistan valley in June. It seems generally common in the hills south of Turkestan, but 

 I did not observe it in the plains country or higher up than 13,000 feet." 



^^This species," says Dr. Scully, -was observed near the course of the Sanju stream, 



between Tam and Kichak-Yailak, at elevations from 8900 to 12,000 feet." Dr. Henderson 



obtamed a single specimen at Dras in Ladak, and thinks that some few birds probably breed 

 i/nere. 



65. MONTIPRINGILLA BRANDTI. 



Leucosticte "^' ^P- Consp i. p. 537 (1850) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 



1875, p. 242 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 88 ; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p 58 

 MonUfringillahcBmatopygia, Goul^- Hume & Henderson, Lahore \o Yarkand, p. 261 (1873)- Scully 



Str. F. IV. p. 171 (1876). ^ ^ ^ ' ocuny, 



Montifringilla brandti (Bp.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 269 (1888). 



Leucosticte h<2matopygia, Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 58. 



Leucosticte pamirensis, Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 58. 



FringiUauda brandti, Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 248 (1890). 



