74i SECOND YAEKAND MISSION. 



Genus LUSCINIOLA. 



146. LUSCINIOLA MELANOPOGON. 



Lusciniola melanopogon (Temm.) ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 132 (1881); C. Swinh Ibis 

 1882, p. 108; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 369 (1889). ' * ' ' 



Calamodus melanopogon, Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 198 (1876). 



No. 1020. Yarkand, December 13, 1873.— Length 6-0 inches, wing 2-6, tail 2-3, tarsus 

 0*9; expanse 7*6; bill from front 0-4 from gape 0*68; length of foot 13. Iris 

 brown; bill horny black; feet black; wings reach within 1*5 inch of end of tail. 



Genus HYPOLAIS. 



147. HyPOLAIS RAMA. 



Hypolais rama (Sykes) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 187 (1876) ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 84 

 (1881) ; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 108; Scully, J. A. S. Beng. Ivi. p. 81 (1887) ; Gates, Faun Brit 

 Ind., Birds, i. p. 391 (1889). 



Phyllopneuste rama (Sykes) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 147 (1876). 



No. 1702. Yarkand, May 21, 1874. 



Nos. 1789, 1791. Yarkand, May 25, 1874. " Got the nest and eggs." 



No. 1793. Yarkand, May 26, 1874. 



Nos. 1816, 1820, 1821. Karghalik, May 30, 1874. 



On the 27th of May, Dr. Stoliczka wrote in his ' Diary ' :—" I got two nests of Bypolais 

 rama, which is beginning to breed. The nest is made entirely of fine grass, coarser outside, 

 very fine inside, and interwoven with seed-film. It is thick, and about two inches deep, 

 round, with a diameter of 2-0 to 2*2 inches. One nest had five, the other three eggs, all 

 fresh, and the birds were evidently still laying. The eggs are rather roundish, creamy white, 

 with some pale inky spots, and with dark streaks and blotches, more or less confluent, round 

 the thick end. The nests were in gardens, in low vine-bushes, about two feet above the 

 ground. Other birds I saw about high calamus grass, and they must breed there too." 

 Colonel Biddulph shot specimens at Karghalik on the 30th of May, and at I^hiz Yar on the 

 19th of May. 



Dr. Scully observes:— '' ^. ram^^ is a seasonal visitant to the plains of Kashgharia, 

 where it breeds, I got the first specimen of it in May, and it was never observed in winter. 

 The Turki name for this Warbler is ' Koktal^hu.' " 



Genus SYLVIA. 



148. Sylvia nisoria. 



Sylvia nisoria (Bechst.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 65 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 79 ; Blanf. 

 East. Persia, ii. p. 174 (1876) ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 6 (1881) ; Homeyer & Tancre, 

 MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 84; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 67; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) ZooL 

 V. pt. 3,p. 70 (1889). 



Nisoria undata (Brehmj ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 149 (1876). 



No. 1697. Kizil, May 19, 1874. 



Nos. 1735, 1736, 1741, 1743, 1788, 1790, 1795. Tarkand, May 15th to 26th, 1874. 



Nos. 1815, 1818, 1823, 1826. Karghalik, May 30, 1874. 



