IM SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



Genus GALLINAGO. 

 339. Gallinago scolopacinus. 



Gallinago scolopacinus, Bp. ; Scully^ Str. F. iv. p. 186 (1876) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 282 (1876) ; 



Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. iii. p. 90 (1878); Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 95; Scully, ibid. p. 588; id! 



J. A. S. Beng. Ivi. p. 87 (1887) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. pt. 3, p. 89 (1889). 

 Scolopax gallinago (L.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 69; Dresser^ Ibis, 1876, p. 330; Zarudn. Ois. 



Transcasp. p. 70 (1885). 



No. 603. Leh, August 31, 1873. 



" The Common Snipe," says Dr. Scully, " was tolerably numerous in the neighbourhood of 

 Yarkand in summer, where it was ascertained to breed ; the bird was never obseryed in winter. 

 It was found in the neighbourhood of marshy ground and inundated fields. The Turki name 

 for the Snipe is ^MahramcM,' ' the solitary one.' " 



340. Gallinago stenura. 



Gallinago sthenura (Bp.) ; Hume & Marsh. Game Birds Ind. iii. p. 339, pi. (1880). 

 Scolopax stenura, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 4^77 (1887). 



No. 606. Leh, August 31, 1873. 



No. 741. East of Tanksi, September 18, 1873. 



341. Gallinago solitaeia. 



Gallinago solitaria (Hodgs.) ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 286 (1873) ; Prjev. in Rowley^s 

 Orn. Misc. iii. p. 91 (1878) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 95 ; Scully, t. c. p. 588 ; id. J. A. S. Beng. Ivi. 

 p. 87 (1887). 



No. 709. Tanksi, September 9, 1873. 

 Nos. 923, 924. Sanju, November 1, 1873. 



Colonel Biddulph writes : — '' I shot one on the south side of the Sakti Pass, near Chimray, 

 and we shot several along the stream in the narrow valley (13,500 feet) leading from Tanksi 

 to the Pangong Lake. I also saw one between Sarhad and Panjah in Wakhan." 



