136 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



Order LIMICOLiE. 

 Family PAERID^. 



Genus H YDROPH ASI ANUS. 



314. Hydrophasianus ohirurgus. 



Hydrophasianus sinensis (Gm.) ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 290 (1873). 

 Nos. 17H74, 176. Wular Lake, Kashmir, July 26, 1873. 

 No. 252, s . Srinagar, August 3, 1873. — Length 21 inches, wing 94 tail 10-45, tarsus 2 ; 



expanse 28. Iris dark brown; beak bluish; feet pale bluish, with a slight green 



tinge, claws horny. 



Dr. Stoliczka records in his ' Diary ' that on the 26th of August he shot a number of this 

 species, and found the eggs. The nest is only a few water-reeds put together at the surface 

 of the water, and the thing can scarcely be called a nest. There were three eggs. Dr. Hen- 

 derson states that it was very abundant near Banihal. 



Family CHAEADEIIDJE. 

 Genus CHARADRIUS. 



315. Oharadrius pulvus. 



Charadrius longipes, Temm. ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 284 (1873) ; Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. 

 Misc. ii. p. 434 (1877) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 94; Scully, t. c. p. 586. 



Not a single specimen of the Asiatic Golden Plover is in the collection, but Dr. Hen- 

 derson found it very abundant in the vicinity of Yarkand in August, when the specimens 

 still retained some of the breeding-plumage. 



Genus SQUATAROLA. 

 316. Squatahola helvetica. 



Squatarola helvetica (Gm.) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 184 (1876); Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 278 (1876); 



Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 327. 

 Charadrius squatarola, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 69 (1873). 



Dr. Scully says \—" Two specimens of the Grey Plover were shot near running water 

 between the Port and City of Kashghar in November. It was never noticed in the country 

 at any other time, and I have no information about it. In common with several other 

 Plovers it is called in Turki ' Chullok' " 



