VULTUR MONACHUS. 



AVES. 

 Order ACCIPITRES. 



Suborder FALCONE S. 



Earn. VULTURIDiE. 



Genus VULTUR. 



Vultur monachus, L.; Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 1 (1869); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 3 (1874); 



Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 116 (1876) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 98; Prjev. in Eowley^s Orn. Misc. ii. 



p. 139 (1877) ; Menzbier, Orn. Turkest. (Severtz. Coll.), p. 2 (1888). 

 Vultur cinereus, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 62 (1873) ; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 31 (1885) ; Badde, 



Ornis, iii. p. 466 (1887). 



Dr. Scully states that this Vulture is found, though rarely, in the hills bordering Eastern 

 Turkestan, and a few stragglers are occasionally seen in the plains. The Turki name is 

 ^'Salwar." 



Earn. EALOONID^. 



Subfara. ACCIPITRIN^. 



Genus CIRCUS. 

 2. CmCUS CYANEUS. 



Circus cyaneus (L.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 52 (1874); Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 125 (1876); Bidd. 



Ibis, 1881, p. 42; Scully, ibid. p. 421; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 54; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. 



Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 82; Scully, J. A. S. Beng. Ivi. p. 77 (1887); Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) 



Zool. V. part 3, p. m (1889). 

 Strigiceps cyaneus , Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 63 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 109; Prjev. in Rowley's 



Orn. Misc. ii. p. 154 (1877) ; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 34 (1885) ; Eadde, Ornis, iii. p. 472 (1887). 



No. 950. Bora, Noyember 4, 1873.— Length 18'25 inches, wing 13-6, tail 9*0, tarsus 2*8; 



expanse 41*0. Iris golden; bill dark horny; feet golden. Wings reach within 



2 inches of end of tail. [Young bird.] 

 No. 1065. Yarkand, Noyember 21, 1873. ^^Ach-sa." [An adult male.] 

 No. 1069. Yarkand, Noyember 21, 1873. " Kara-sa = young of the grey bird." [Young 



bird.] 



Colonel Biddulph writes : — " We found this bird yery common all oyer the more culti- 

 yated portions of Yarkand from Karghalik. We neyer met with it in the desert-tracts, such 

 as those between Yarkand and Kashghar, nor at any eleyation in the hills. "We saw it the 

 whole time we were in the country from November to May." Specimens were procured 

 by Colonel Biddulph at Maralbashi in January 1874, and at Yangihissar on the 1st of 

 December 1873. 



Dr. Stoliczka's diary notes this Harrier as not uncommon near Yarkand in November 

 1873. 



Dr. Henderson does not appear to have met with the species, but Dr. Scully has the 

 following note : — " The Hen-Harrier is a permanent resident in the plains of Kashgharia and 

 breeds there ; the nest is said to be placed in long grass jungle. I often observed this bird 

 sailing low, over rush-grown marshes and bare helds, with a \a onderlully long-sustained Hight. 



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