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from 11,000 to 13,000 feet. They were usually seen in pairs, and frequented the bushes 

 growing near the banks of the Karakash River. 



According to Professor Menzbier (Ibis, 1885, p. 356) one was obtained in October near the 

 Upper Uital, Upper Tarim ; a male was obtained by the brothers Grum-Grzimailo at Umkan-gol 

 in the Tian-shan, and numerous specimens in the Karlyk-tagh (Ortarn and Chotun-tam) and at 

 Pjan-do-go and Matisse in the Nian-shan. 



Dr. SevertzofT states (Ibis, 1883, p. 64) that it breeds in the Alai Mountains and in some 

 parts of the Pamir; the young were found near Ran-kul at 12,000 feet in the middle of August, 

 and they were common near the sources of the Kashgar Darya, between 11,000 and 13,000 feet, 

 at the end of July. According to Sharpe (2nd Yark. Miss. p. 98) Dr. Stoliczka first identified 

 this Accentor as new in his 'Diary,' on shooting one- near Shahidula on the 19th of October. 

 Colonel Biddulph procured specimens at Tam on the 25th of October from 6000 to 8000 feet, 

 and at Aktala on the 22nd of March, and he found it in the lower hills coming down from Sanju 

 and going up to the Pamir, and it was numerous in the Knlustan Valley. Eastward it ranges 

 into Mongolia. Col. Prjevalsky says that he found it throughout the portion of Mongolia he 

 visited, with the exception of Ganssu. In the Gobi, Alashan, Zaidam, and Northern Thibet he 

 met with it in the winter. It breeds, he adds, in the Alpine regions of Alashan. According to 

 Mr. Pleske (Wissensch. Result. Przew. Reis. ii. p. 145) Accentor fulvescens appears to be very 

 common in Central Asia, as Prjevalsky met with it in all parts of the countries explored by 

 him, eastward to the northern portion of the province of Ganssu. Probably it is resident in 

 all the mountain country of Central Asia and only avoids the desert. Even in the northern 

 portion of its range, in the Tian-shan, it was met with by Prjevalsky in October and 

 November, and was then probably in its winter-quarters. He states that it was not uncommon 

 on the Juldus, in the Valley of Chaidu-gol, and in Dzungaria, as, for instance, between Barkul 

 and Chami, and on the mountain-range of Dshair. In the mountain oases of the Central-Asiatic 

 desert it also occurs in tolerable numbers. In the winter it was observed in the Churchu 

 Mountains, and numerously during the breeding-season on the Nian-shan. Prjevalsky met 

 with it also in the valley of the upper course of the Chuanche, and in Eastern Turkestan, 

 in the Russki Mountains and in the Keria mountain-range. In Thibet it is recorded 

 from the Burchan-Buda Mountains to the Blue River (Murui-ussu). In Ganssu it inhabits 

 the woodless frontier mountains to Alashan, and in small numbers the southern Kuku-nor 

 Mountains. 



It winters in Gilgit and Sikhim. Col. Biddulph and Mr. Scully both record it as common 

 in the former country, and the latter gentleman remarks that it is only found there in winter, 

 and is common from the first week in October to the third week in March. Mandelli also 

 obtained it in the country north of Sikhim in the winter season. 



Dr. Sharpe (Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 655), referring to an Accentor from Irkutsk, remarks 

 that it appears to belong to the present species, and not to A. montanellus ; and the late 

 Dr. Taczanowski states (Sib. Orient, p. 220) that Dybowski and Godlevski met with it on the 

 Argun River in Dauria in March and April in 1873, these being the only records to date of its 

 occurrence in Siberia. 



So far as I am aware, nothing is known respecting the breeding-habits of the Brown 



