52 SECOND YAEKAND MISSION. 



Genus MEL ANO C OR YPH A. 



98. Melanocorypha bimaculata. 



Melanocorypha bimaculata (Menetr.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. Qt7y 143 (1873) ; Blanf. East. Persia, 

 ii. p. 244 (1876) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 183; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 89; Scully, t. c. p. 580; c! 

 Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 115 ; Scully, J. A. S. Beng. Ivi. p. 84 (1887) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc' (2) 

 Zool. V. p. 82 (1889) ; id. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 555 (1890) ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. 

 p. 323(1890). 



Melanocorypha torquata, Blyth ; Hume & Henders. Labore to Yark. p. 265, pi. xxvii. (1873) ; Scully, Str. 

 F. iv. p. 173 (1876). 



Melanocorypha bimaculata, /3. minor, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. ^7 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 183. 



No. 1013, s . Yarkand, Noyember 12, 1873. — Length 7*7 inches, wing 4-8, tail 2*4, tarsus 

 1-05 ; expanse 15-2; bill from front 0*735 from gape 0*85; length of foot 1*85; wings 

 reach within 0*5 of end of tail. Iris brown ; bill bluish horny above and on the basal 

 half of lower mandible, yellow at the sides and tip. 



No. 1292. Kashghar, February 1, 1874.— Length 7 inches, wing 4*43, tail 2*15, tarsus 

 1*1 ; expanse 13*9 ; bill from front 0'625 from gape 0*75 ; length of foot 1*8. Iris 

 dark brown ; bill dusky, pale below, yellowish at the base ; feet fleshy white ; claws 

 dusky. 



No. 1293. Kashghar, February 1, 1874. — Length 7*6 inches, wing 4*83, tail 235, tarsus 

 1*13; expanse 14*7; bill from front 0*65, from gape 0*8; length of foot 1*92; hind 

 toe with claw 0*83, claw alone 0*45 ; middle toe from the root 0*94, greatest breadth 

 1'37; height of bill 0*32; wings reach within 04 of end of tail. Iris dark brown; 

 bill dusky, pale below, yellowish at base ; feet fleshy white. 



Dr. Henderson procured a specimen of this species on the return journey, at the foot of 

 the hills leading from Kashmir to the plains of the Punjab. Dr. Scully writes : — " Three 

 specimens of this bird were obtained in Tarkand in February, but it was not seen after that, 

 except some cage-birds. It is said to be very plentiful in the neighbourhood of Hi (Kulja), 

 and only to visit Kashghar and Yarkand in January and February. The species is a very 

 favourite cage-bird with the Kashgharians, on account of its sweet song. A specimen was 

 brought to me in June, which sang most beautifully, and the owner wanted twenty tangas 

 (Es. 4) for it. The Turki name is Hi Toghai^ i. e. the ' Hi Lark.' " 



Genus ALAUDA. 

 99. Alauda cantarella. 



Alauda arvensis, L. ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. Q7 (1873) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 239 (1876) ; 



Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 314 (1877) ; Finsch, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxix. p. 221 (1879) ; 



Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 89; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 116; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 



1883, p. 90; Eadde, Ornis, iii. p. 484 (1887) ; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 173 ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. 



Soc. (2) Zool. V. p. 81 (1889) ; id. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 567 (1890) ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., 



Birds, ii. p. 324 (1890). 

 Alauda cantarella, Bp. Iconogr. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 5 (1841). 

 Alauda dulcivox, Hodgs. ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 89 ; Scully, t. c. p. 582. 

 Alauda triborhyncha (nee Hodgs.), Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 268, pl.xxviii. (1873). 



