48 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



On the 24tli of March Colonel Biddulph shot a couple of male birds, one adult and one 

 immature, in the Kirog Valley. These two specimens he gave to Mr. Mandelli, and they 

 passed with the rest of the Mandelli Collection into Mr. Hume's hands, and they are now in 

 the British Museum {cf, Sharpe, L c), 



91. Emberiza stewauti. 



Emberiza stewarti, Blyth ; Dresser^ Ibis^ 1875, p. 248 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1879, p. 446, 1880, p. 65 ; 



Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 81; Scully, t. c. p. 575; C. Swinb. Ibis, 1882, p. 113; Bidd. ibid. p. 282; 



Sbarpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 547 (1888). 

 Emberiza canicepSj Gould; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873). 



No. 77. Murree, July 2, 1873. 



No. 83. Changligally, near Murree, July 2, 1873. 



No. 121. Chuttrebelas, July 16, 1873. 



No. 189, 2 . Srinagar, July 28, 1873. 



92. Emberiza leucocephala. 



Emberiza leucocephala^ Gm. ; Hume & Henderson, Lahore to Yark. p. 254 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875 



p. 248 ; Finscb, Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxix. p. 215 (1879) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 79 ; Scully, t. c. 



p. 574; C. Swinb. Ibis, 1882, p. 113; Bidd. ibid. p. 282; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 60; Sharpe, Cat. 



B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 549 (1888) ; id. Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. pt. 3, p. 81 (1889). 

 Emberiza pity ornis, Pall.; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873); Prjev. in Eowley's Orn. Misc. ii. 



p. 307 (1877) ; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 90. 



No. 888. Sanju, October 27, 1873. [An adult male in winter plumage.] 



No. 1477. Panjah, April 16, 1874.— Length 7*3 inches, wing 36, tail 3*0, tarsus 0*4; bill 



from front 0-4, from gape 0*5. Iris brown; bill dusky, lower mandible pale bluish; 



feet fleshy brown, soles yellowish. 



This species was met with by Dr. Henderson in October in large flocks near Sonamarg 

 in the Sind Valley. They had probably been driven down from the pine-forests above by a 

 fall of snow which had occurred a few days previously. 



Genus MELOPHUS. 



93. Melophus melanicteeus. 



Melophus melanicterus (Gm.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 568 (1888) 



S ad. No locality. 

 No. 122, s ad. Chuttrebelas, July 16, 1873. 



