130 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



Genus CLAINTGULA. 



296. Clangtjla glaucion. 



Clangula glaucion, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 70 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 421 -, Blanf. East. 

 Persia, ii. p. 302 (1876) ; Hume & Marsh. Game Birds of India, iii. p. 285, pi. 38 (1880) ; Scully, 

 J. A. S. Beng. Ivi. p. 89 (1887) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 91 (1889) . 



Bucephalus clangula, Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. iii. p. 106 (1878). 



No. 1318, $ . Kashghar, February 1874. (Sent by the King.) 



Nos. *1591, 1692, d . Lake Sirikul, Pamir, May 1, 1874.— *Sex, male. Length 18-7 



inches, wing 9*35, tail 4, tarsus 1-65; expanse 32; bill from front 1*3, from gape 2-1. 



Iris yellow ; bill greenish black ; feet reddish yellow, soles silky brown. Middle toe 



2-9, hind toe 0-8. 



Genus ANAS. 



297. Anas boscas. 



Anas boschas,L.; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 70 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 419; Blanf. East. 

 Persia, ii. p. 300 (1876) ; Scully, Str. P. iv. p. 199 (1876) ; Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. iii. p. 101 

 (1878) ; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 124; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 72 (1885). 



Anas boscas, Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 99; Scully, t. c. p. 592. 



No. 1169, d . Kashghar, December 20, 1873. {Captain Trotter.) 

 Nos. 1199, 1200, cS 2 . Kashghar, January 1874. (Sent by the King.) 



"The Mallard," writes Dr. Scully, " occurs in great numbers in Kashgharia during the 

 whole winter, when it is decidedly the commonest of the Duck tribe. In spring and summer 

 it seemed to be less plentiful ; but this may perhaps have been because it was cast in the 

 shade by the great variety of other Ducks and Teal then breeding about Yarkand. The 

 Yarkandis say that of the twenty odd species of Duck which they discriminate, the Mallard 

 is the only permanent resident in the vicinity of Kashghar and Yarkand, breeding in April. 

 The Turki name of the Mallard is ' Aurdak; which means simply ' Duck,' and it is sometimes 

 distinguished as ' Sun ' or Suna aurdak' " 



Dr. Stoliczka found this species breeding in the jheel near Yarkand on the 24th of May. 



Genus QUERQUEDULA. 



298. QUERQUEDULA CRECCA. 



^^«5 crecca, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 70 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 419; Scully, Ibis, 1881 



p. 593; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 7^-, Scully, J. A. S. Beng. Ivi. p. 88 (1887). 

 Querquedulacrecca,lA^xm^%i Henders. Labore to Yark. p. 297 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 419 ; 

 Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 301 (1876); Scully, Str. P. iv. p. 200 (1876) ; Prjev. in Eowley^s Orn. 

 Misc. iii. p. 104 (1878) ; Hume & Marshall, Game Birds of India, iii. p. 205, pi. 27 (1880) ; Bidd. 

 Ibis, 1881, p. 100; C. Swinb. Ibis, 1882, p. 124; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 91 (1889). 

 No. 827, $ . Shahidiila, October 19, 1873. 

 No. 1532, $ . Panjah, April 14-23, 1874. 



"The Common Teal," writes Dr. Henderson, "was never seen either on the way to or 

 m Yarkand ; the first specimen was met with on the return journey, near the hot springs at 



