BETA I LED LIST OF BIRDS. 
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This bird has a perfect string of names amongst the Yar- 
kandis, Belina/' " Karrak/' " Orgat/' Mastiak," but un- 
less one is well acquainted with a language it is by no means 
safe to rely on the names furnished by the natives on the 
spur of the moment. 
Of a female the length was 9*5, the expanse 20, the tail 
from vent 2*5, the foot, greatest length 1, greatest width 
1.75, the legs and feet plumbeous, bill dark plumbeous nearly 
black, irides dark brown. [G. H.~\ 
Dr. Jerdon tells us that many breed in India even towards 
the south, but I am inclined to think there must be some 
mistake, and that if they breed in India at all it can only be 
in the south. For years these birds have been watched 
throughout northern India, by myself and several of my con- 
tributors, and we have always found that the birds disappeared 
entirely during the hot season. The same has been the case 
in Central India, even down at Raepore, where they are ex- 
traordinarily numerous in the spring ; the birds become wild 
and shy by the 1st of May, and before the month closes have 
all disappeared. [A. O. H.] 
847. .ffigialites mongolicus (Pallas). 
This species vras first met with on the 19th of July, at 
the hot springs above Gokra, at an elevation of 16,000 feet. 
A few were seen on the Salt Plain, on the 29th of July, 
and after that the birds were found in pairs all along the 
Karakash river. They were not very numerous, but a 
certain number of pairs were met with each day. All the 
specimens obtained are in full breeding plumage and corre- 
spond well with Middendorf s plate, No. XIX, figures 2 
and 3. 
Not a single bird was met with on the return journey, 
in September and the early part of October. Gokra was 
reached on the 5th of that month, so that ere this the 
young birds must have been sufficiently advanced to leave 
along with their parents for our distant Indian coasts. 
Of one specimen measured in the flesh it is noted that 
the length was 8 inches ; the expanse 16 ; the tail from 
