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Dr. Stoliczka, in his ' Diary/ notes that the present species was very common near Sanju 

 on the 27th of October, and on the 20th of the same month he mentions it as the only- 

 species he noticed on the Sanju hills. 



Dr. Scully writes : — '' This species is only a winter visitant to Eastern Turkestan, and 

 even then it is not common ; it is said to migrate eastwards, towards China, in the spring. 

 Near Yarkand it frequents a sort of desert bush called Kamgliak, 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." 



Colonel Biddulph sends this note : — " We first obtained one or two specimens of this 

 species at Tanksi (13,000 feet) in September. Again in the Karakash valley in October 

 several specimens were procured on our arrival at Sanju in the beginning of November ; 

 they were seen settling in immense flocks in short grass in the morning. A few 

 specimens were obtained during the winter in Kashghar, and in Wakhan in April we found it 

 very common. They are chiefly ground-birds." 



Genus PETRONIA. 



69. Pethonia peteonia. 



Fringilla petronia, Linn. S. N. i. p. 322 (1766). 



Passer petronia (L.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 420. 



Pyrgita petronia (L.) ; Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 288 (1877) ; Radde, Ornis, iii. p. 481 (1887). 



Petronia stulta (Gm.) ; Blanf . East. Persia, ii. p. 255 (1876); Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 79; Scully, ibid. 



p. 574; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 113; Gates, Eaun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 243 (1890). 

 Petronia brevirostris , Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. Trance, i. p. 179 (1876). 

 Petronia petronia, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 289 (1888). 



No. 1210. Kashghar, January 19, 1874. Length 6*5 inches, wing 4, tail 2'33, tarsus 

 0-8; expanse 12-2; bill from front 0-57, from gape 07; length of foot 1*4. 

 Iris yellowish brown ; bill bluish dusky, pale below ; feet fleshy brown, more dusky 

 on the soles. 



No. 1228. Kashghar, January 23, 1874. 



No. 1264, 1265, 1268, 1269. Kashghar, January 24, 1874. 



No. 1273. Kashghar, January 25, 1874. 



No. 1330. Kashghar, February 10, 1874. 



Genus PASSER. 



70. Passer montanus. 



Fringilla montana, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 324 (1766). 



Passer montanus (L.) j Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 500 (1856) ; Severtz. Turkest. 

 Jevotn. p. 64 (1873) ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 254 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 239; 

 Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 255 (1876); Scully, Str. E. iv. p. 178 (1876); Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool 

 France, i. p. 178 (1876) ; Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 294 (1877); Einsch, Verli. z.-b. Ges. 

 Wien, 1879, p. 210; Wardlaw Bamsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 64; St. John, t. c. p. 145; Homeyer & 

 Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 89 ; Badde, Ornis, iii. p. 482 (1887) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xii. p. 302 (1888) ; Gates, Eaun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 240 (1890). 



No. 879. Kiwaz, October 26, 1873. 



Nos. 880, 884, 885, ad. Kiwaz, October 26, 1873. 



