40 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



brown ; bill pale fleshy, tinged witb dusky yellowish at the lateral bases ; feet pale 



tinged with dusky ; claws dark horny. 

 No. 1168, d^ . Kashghar, December 19, 1873. 

 No. 1208, 6 . Kashghar, January 18, 1874. 



Nos. 1229, 1231, 1247, S , 1250, 5 , 1254-55, 1257. Maralbashi, January 1874. 

 No. 1294, 6 . Kashghar, January 2, 1874. 

 No. 1304, 6 . Kashghar, January 3, 1874. 

 No. 1338, 6 . Kashghar, March 11, 1874. 

 Nos. 1341, $ , 1345. Kashghar, February 12, 1874. 

 No. 1369, 6 . Aioksogon, Pebruary 19, 1874. 

 No, 1372. Jigda, February 22, 1874. 

 No. 1378. Jigda, February 26, 1874. 



" In December," writes Colonel Biddulph, " one or two specimens were obtained near 

 Kashghar. In January I found it tolerably plentiful along the road to Maralbashi. I saw 

 them both feeding on the ground and perched in bushes. As far as I can remember, they 

 were always found singly or in pairs." 



Genus SERIN US. 



75. Sehinus ptjsillus. 



Passer pusillus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 28 (1811). 



Serimis pusillus (Pall.) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 243; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 373 (1888). 



Metoponia pusilla (Pall.) ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 259 (1873) ; Stoliczka, Str. F. ii. p. 464 

 (1874); Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 250 (1876); Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. Q7 ; Bidd. Ibis, 

 1881, p. 86; Scully, t. c. p. 578; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 115; Bidd. t. c. p. 284 ; Gates, Faun! 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 230 (1890). 



Orcegithus pusillus (Pall.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 64, 116 (1873). 



No. 412, s . Mataian, August 15, 1873.— Length 5*2 inches, wing 3*05, tail 2-2, tarsus 

 0-5 ; expanse 9 ; bill from front 0-3, from gape 0-4 ; length of foot 1*1. Iris brown ; 

 bill black ; feet black. 



Nos. 450, 453, imm., 454. Chiliscambo, August 18, 1873. 



No. 460. Kargil, August 19, 1873. 



No. 779, juv. Ghagra, September 21, 1873. 



Nos. 1420, ? , 1424, 6 . Tarbashi, March 27, 1874. 



No. 1559, 6 . Panjah, April 25, 1874 [Col. Jordan). 



Nos. 1575-1579. Langarkish, April 26, 1874. 



Dr. Stoliczka records this species in his 'Diary' as a permanent resident at Panjah. 



Colonel Biddulph's localities are the Nubra Valley on the 25th of June, the specimens 

 being in full breeding-plumage ; Kargil on the 9th of July ; and Panjah in Wakhan in April. 

 He writes : — '' We found this species everywhere up to 10,000 feet in the hills south and 

 west of Turkestan and Wakhan in spring ; also in Ladak, especially about Kargil in July. 

 I did not see any in the plains of Turkestan, but I believe they breed there in the summer." 



Dr. Henderson states that this Pinch was met with in immense flocks, both in July and 

 October, almost throughout Ladak, from Dras to the Pota-la. It probably breeds in May 

 and not impossibly in Ladak. 



