42 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



77. Carpodacus sevehtzovi. 



Carpodacus rubicillus (nee Giildenst.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873) ; Hume & Henders. Lahore 



to Yark. p. 258 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 245; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 169 (1876) ; Tacz. Bull. 



Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 182 (1876) ; Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 298 (1876) ; Severtz. Ibis, 



1883, p. 81 ; Menzbier, Ibis, 1885, p. 353. 

 Carpodacus severtzovi, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 354; id. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 400 (1888) ; Gates, 



Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 220. 



No. 854, c5'. South of Sanju Pass, October 22, 1873. — Length 8*5 inches, wing 4*5, tail 4, 

 tarsus 0'85 ; expanse 13*6. Iris dark brown; bill greenish horny; feet dark horny. 



No. 855, $ . South of Sanju Pass, October 22, 1873. — Length 8*25 inches, wing 4*25, 

 tail 3*5, tarsus 0*85; expanse 13*25; length of foot 1*5. Iris, bill, and feet the same 

 as in the male. 



Nos. 875, 876, 877, 878, $ . Kiwaz, October 26, 1873. 



Nos. 1437, 1438, S 2 . Tashkurghan, March 30, 1874. 



No. 1460. Panjah, April 13, 1874. 



No. 1518. Panjah, April 14-23, 1874. 



Colonel Biddulph has furnished us with the accompanying note : — " Both coming and 

 going we found this common in the Karakash Valley below Shahidula (11,500 feet) and on 

 the Yarkand side of the Sanju Pass (9000 feet) ; also in Wakhan (9000 feet) ; again in the 

 Kulustan Valley (10,000-11,000 feet) coming up to the Tangidewan Pass, where they were 

 not very common. They were very abundant in June at Tutujalak (13,000 feet) between the 

 -Nobra Valley and the Tussia Pass." 



Dr. Henderson procured a specimen on the 9th of October near the Pangong Lake, and 

 two young birds were also obtained on the Arpalak Eiver on the 13th of August, and he 

 remarks that the species probably breeds in the neighbourhood. Dr. Scully writes : — " A 

 pair of this fine species was first observed in a rocky gorge between Mazar and the Chuchu 

 Pass ; they hopped from the buckthorn bushes growing by the side of a small mountain- 

 stream and mounted up the hillside. After that this species was often seen along the banks 

 of the Karakash from Kurgan Ali Nazar to Oibuk (elevation 10,700 to 11,700 feet). The 

 arrival of our camps at Toghrasu on the 22nd August greatly disturbed a family of this Pose- 

 Pinch ; the male bird especially was very excited, flying backwards and forwards along the 

 hillside and crying shrilly to its two youngsters to follow it out of reach of danger. Nearly 

 all the birds of this species which I shot were found to have the bills staine^ a sort of pink 

 colour; this was probably due to the birds having been feeding on some kind of berry, as 

 the colour rubbed off on wetting." 



78. Cahpodacus rhodochlamys. 



Pyrrhula {Cory thus) rhodochlamys, Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. St, Petersb. 1843, p. 27. 



Carpodacus rhodochlamys (Brandt) -, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 245 j 



Menzbier, Ibis, 1885, p. 353; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 406 (1888). 

 Fropasser rhodochlamys (Brandt) ; Stoliczka, Str. F. iii. p. 219 (1875). 

 Propasser rhodometopus, Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 156, pi. vi. 



No. 722. Tanksi, September 17, 1873. 



No. 726. Tanksi, September 17, 1873.— Bill pale horny; feet fleshy brown; iris brown. 

 Length 8*5 inches, wing 4-25, tail 3-63, tarsus 0*9. 



