36 SECOND TARKAND MISSION. 



Dr. Stoliczka says in his ' Diary ' that he got two nests and eggs near Yarkand on the 

 23rd of May. One nest was in a vine-bush about eigbt feet above the ground, and one in a 

 mulberry-tree about twenty feet above the ground. The nest was large, composed outside of 

 thin twigs of a thorny bush, inside with a thick lining of cotton and old rags and thread. 

 The whole nest is somewhat loosely or carelessly made, roundish, and about an inch deej), 

 but three inches wide. There were from four to five eggs in a nest ; one had nearly developed 

 young, so the bird must begin breeding about the beginning of May. The eggs are pale 

 bluish, with some short streaks or dots of dark brown round the thicker end. 



Genus BUCANETES. 



68. BuCANETES MONGOLICrS. 



Carpodacus mongolicus, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 447, 1871, p. 480; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 56; Scully, 



Sir. F. iv. p. 169 (1876). 

 Erythi'ospiza mongolica (Swinh.), Prjev. in Rowley^s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 303 (1877) ; Finscli, Verliandl. 



z.-b. Gesellscli. Wien, xxix. p. 212 (1879) ; Barnes, Str. F. ix. p. 457 (1880) ; Homeyer & Tancre, 



MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 93 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 287 (1888) ; Gates, Faun. 



Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 222 (1890). 

 Erijthrospiza incarnata, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 64, 117 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 245. 

 Bucanetes mongolicus , Menzbier, Ibis, 1885, p. 353. 



No. 625, juv. Leh, September 14, 1873. 



No. 728, 6 juv. Muglib, east of Tanksi, September 18, 1873.— Iris brown; bill pale 



fleshy brownish ; feet fleshy yellowish brown, soles orange. Length 6'2 inches, 



wing 3-3, tail 2*35, tarsus 0*9. 

 No. 729, $ juv. Muglib, September 18, 1873. 



No. 887. Sanju, October 27, 1873. <> 



No. 891, 6 ad. Sanju, October 28, 1873. — Iris brown ; bill yellowish pale horny; feet 



horny brown ; tarsi with a reddish tinge. Length 6*3 inches, wing 3*75, tail 2-32, 



tarsus 0*7. 

 Nos. 934, 941. Sanju, October 30, 1873. 



Nos. 1133, 1135, 1147, 1118. Kashghar, December 11 to 15, 1873. 

 Nos. 1182-1192. Chakmak, January 7 to 9, 1874. 

 Nos. 1261, 1262, 1270, 1281, 1282. Kashghar, January 24 to 31, 1874. 

 Nos. 1306, 1328, 1331, 1332, 1334, 1347, 1349, 1351, 1352. Kashghar, February 4 to 13,1874. 

 No. 1439. Tashkiirghan, March 30, 1874. 

 No. 1519. Panjah, April 23, 1874. 



The young bird resembles the adult female and has very little rosy colour on the quills, 

 and none at all on the coverts or face. The upper surface and the wing-coverts are sandy 

 brown, and the whole breast and flanks are suffused with sandy buff. 



In the ' Catalogue of Birds ' I adopted the generic name JS7'ythrospiza for the Trumpeter 

 Bullfinches. Count Salvadori, however, has written to me as follows : — '' The genus 

 Erythrospiza, Bp., was established much earlier than in the ' Fauna Italica.' You will find 

 it in the ' Osservazioni al Begno Animale del Baron Cuvier,' p. 80 (1840), and it is an 

 equivalent of Carpodacm of Kaup. You have not noticed that Bonaparte in the ' Fauna 

 Italica,' both in the ' Introduzione ' and in the text of B. githaginea, says that this species is 

 not a typical Erythrospiza, So the genus Bucanetes must be used." 



