38 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



Nos. 973, 974 ad. Karghalik, November 6, 1873. 

 No. 1109, ad. Yangihissar, December 2, 1873. 

 No. 1204, ad. Kashghar, January 15, 1874. 

 No. 1206, ad. Kaslighar, January 17, 1874. 

 No. 1212, ad. Kaslighar, January 19, 1874. 

 Nos. 1224-1226, ad. Kashghar, January 23, 1874. 



One of these is a cream-coloured variety. Dr. Stoliczka notes : " I saw another 

 entirely white." 

 Nos. 1230, 1246, 1248, 1249, 1259, ad. Maralbashi, January 1874. 



Dr. Stoliczka mentions in his ' Diary ' that the Tree-Sparrow first became abundant at 

 Kiwaz on the 20th of February. On the 14th of January he saw the first Passer montanus 

 pairing and selecting a place for a nest. On the 22nd of May he procured a number of eo'O's 

 at Yarkand, and writes in his ' Diary ':— '' The eggs are rather large, and vary much in markino-. 

 It builds in houses, but prefers holes of trees, and makes a large nest, inside thickly lined 

 with wool, cotton, rags, &c. I saw as many as twelve eggs in one nest, and I wonder whether 

 they are all from the same bird." 



Dr. Scully states that the Tree-Sparrow breeds in Eastern Turkestan from May to August, 

 and he believes that it rears two broods in the year. It is ''the Common Sparrow of 

 Eastern Turkestan, where it is a permanent resident. It abounds everywhere near inhabited 

 places and cultivated fields, up to an elevation of about 7500 feet. The Turki name for the 

 Tree-Sparrow is 'Ak Kuchkach,' i, e. ' The White Bird,' in Khokand, and by the Andijanis it is 

 called ' Chumchuk,' but a Yarkandi would not understand what was meant by the latter 

 name." 



Dr. Henderson writes :— " The Tree-Sparrow of Europe is the House-Sparrow of the city 

 of Yarkand, where it is almost as familiar and impudent as the English or Indian House- 

 Sparrow. It was seldom noticed in the fields, or indeed anywhere except in and about the 

 houses. In Turki it is called ' Chum-Chuk.' " 



71. Passer domesticus. 



Fringilla domestica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 323 (1766). 



Passer domesticus (L.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 239 ; Blanf. East. 



Persia, ii. p. 254 (1876) ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 78 (1876) ; Finsch, Verh. zool.-bot. 



Gesellsch. Wien, 1879, p. 209 ; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 112; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. 



Wien, 1883, p. 89; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 308 (1888) ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind Birds 



ii. p. 236 (1890). 

 Passer indicus, J. & S. ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 252 (1873) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 254 



(1877) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 63; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 79; Scully, ibid. p. 573; Bidd. 



Ibis, 1882, p. 281 ; Scully, J. A. S. Beng. Ivi. p. 85 (1887) ; Badde, Ornis, iii. p. 482 (1887) ; 



Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 79 (1889). 

 Passer dornesticus indicus, Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 8. 



Nos. 245, 246, 6 2 ad. Srinagar, August 2, 1873. 



No. 534, c? ad. Saspul, Ladak, August 25, 1873. 



Nos. 556, 561, c? , 563, 567, 2 ad. Leh, August 28, 1873. 



The bright-coloured race of the Common Sparrow, Fasser indicus of authors, was not 

 met with by the Expedition beyond Leh, and Dr. Henderson states that it was never seen 

 m Yarkand ; nor is the species in Dr. Scully's list. 



