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parte has placed them with the Choughs, which they 
certainly greatly resemble. 
Considered, however, in connexion with the second new 
species of this genus, which has next to be described, and 
remembering their ground feeding, dust-loving habits, I 
confess that, as already noticed, I should be inclined to 
suspect affinities with some of the more aberrant groups of 
the Timalince. [A. O. H.] 
679 (ter). Podoces humilis, Hume. (PI. xxiii.) 
This strange bird was only seen above Kitchik-Yilak, on 
the way to Yarkand ; on the return journey it was not met 
with. It frequents short grassy downs, at a height of about 
1100 feet. They were not in flocks, but were scattered all 
over the hill side. [G. H.~\ 
Although differing in habits, appearance, and size so 
widely from the preceding, it seems impossible to separate 
it generically. The same curved, sub -cylindrical elongated 
bill; the same dense nareal tufts; the same robust feet, 
with the lateral toes nearly equal; and the same shaped 
wings, characterize both species. It may possibly not be 
new to science, but I can find no record of it in any work 
available to me for reference, and I have therefore designated 
it as above. 
Podoces Hendersoni. 
