124 SECOND YAEKAND MISSION, 



Order PLATALEiE. 



Family IBIDIDiS. 



Genus PLEGADIS. 



282. Plegadis palcinelltjs. 



Ibis falcinellus (L.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 68 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 326; Blanf. East, 



Persia, ii. p. 298 (1876) . 

 Falcinellus igneus, C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 123. 

 Plegadis falcinellus, Gates in Hume's Nests and Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 231 (1890). 



No. 1531. Panjah, April 14-23, 1874. 



Order HERODIONES. 



Family APDEID^. 

 Genus ARDEA. 



283. Aedea cinehea. 



Ardea cinerea, L. ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 295 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 325; 

 Scully, Str. E. iv. p. 196 (1876) ; Prjev. in Eowley's Orn. Misc. iii. p. 48 (1878) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881^ 

 p. 99; Scully, ibid. p. 591 ; C. Swinb. Ibis, 1882, p. 123; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 72; Zarudn. Ois. 

 Transcasp. p. 71 (1885) ; Badde, Ornis, iii. p. 497 (1887) . 



Ardea cinerea, var. brag, Isid. Geoffr. ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 68 (1873). 



No. 177. Wular Lake, Kashmir, July 26, 1873.— " Brag." 



Colonel Biddulpli procured a specimen at Baramula. He writes to us: — "I saw this 

 species between Sanju and Tarkand and in the swamps round the latter place." Dr. Stoliczka 

 found it breeding on a jheel near Yarkand on the 22nd of May. 



Dr. Henderson says that this species was very common about Srinagar, where there is a 

 large heronry. 



'' Pour specimens of this species," writes Dr. Scully, " were preserved at Yarkand in 

 January and Pebruary. This Heron was common about Kashghar and Yarkand during the 

 whole winter, frequenting swampy ground and the neighbourhood of unfrozen bits of water. 

 It was not seen near Yarkand from April to August ; but in the latter month numbers of these 

 birds were met with at Tungtash near Karghalik, among reeds growing near water. Again, 

 on the 26th of August a flock of these birds (? migrating) was seen near the Karakash River 

 below Gulgun Shah. The Yarkandis say that this bird is a permanent resident in the country, 

 moving northwards in summer to the country about Maralbashi, where it breeds, and that it 

 feeds chiefly on frogs and fish. The Turki name for the species is ' Ukar ' or ■ ' JJhar!' 



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