98 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



Pamily ACCENTOEID^. 

 Genus ACCENTOR. 



207. Accentor nepalensis. 



Accentor nipalensis, Hodgs. ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 234 (1873) ; Prjev. in Kowlev^s Orn. 

 Misc. ii. p. 185 (1877) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 74; Scully, t. c. p. 568; Bidd. Ibis, 1882,*p. 281,- 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 664 (1883) ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 166 (1890). 



Dr. Henderson procured an example on the Pangong Lake on the 10th of October, but the 

 specimen appears not to have passed into the Hume Collection, and has apparently perished. 



208. Accentor him alay anus. 



Accentor Umalayanus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 187 (1842) ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 168 



(1890) . 

 Accentor altaicus, Brandt ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. ^^, 133 (1873) ; id. Str. F. iii. p. 428 (1875) • 



Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 91; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 74; Scully, t. c. p. 569; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 65; 



Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 85 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 660 (1883). 



No. 812. Balakchi, October 17, 1873. 



Genus THARRHALEUS. 



209. Tharrhaleus pulvescens. 



Accentor fulvescens, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. m, 132 (1873); id. Str. F. iii. p. 428 (1875) ; Prjev. 

 in Rowley's Grn. Misc. ii. p. 186 (1877) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 75 ; Scully, t. c. p. 569; Bidd. Ibis, 

 1882, p. 281, pi. viii.; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 84 ; Sharpe, Cat. B.Brit. Mus. vii. p. 655 (1883); 

 Menzbier, Ibis, 1885, p. 356. 



Accentor montanellus (nee Pall.) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 155 (1876). 



Tharrhaleus futvescens, Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 171 (1890). 



No. 813. Shahidiila, October 19, 1873. 



No. 833. N. of Suget Pass, Shahidula, October 1873 {Dr. Bellew). 



No. 844, c^ . S. of Sanju Pass, October 22, 1873.— Bill black ; feet pale fleshy ; iris 



reddish brown. Length 6'6 inches, wing 3*2, tail 2*75. 

 Nos. 899, 900, 908, 910. Sanju, October 28, 1873. 

 No. 1193. S. of Chakmak, January 9, 1874. 

 No. 1374. Uibulak, 7000 feet, Pebruary 23, 1874. 

 No. 1453. Aktash, April 3, 1874. 

 No. 1593. Sarikol, May 7, 1874. 



Dr. Stoliczka first identified this species as a new one in his ' Diary,' on shooting one near 

 Shahidula on the 19th of October. It was common near Sanju, and he saw it again at 

 Jigda on the 26th of February. Colonel Biddulph procured specimens at Tam, on the 25tb 

 of October, from 6000 to 8000 feet, and at Aktala on the 22nd of March. He writes to 

 us : — " Pound in the lower hills coming down from Sanju, and the same going up to the 

 Pamir. They were very numerous in the Kulustan valley." 



