SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
rently 
Dr. Stoliczka writes in Iris diary “ At Ighiz Yar I also shot a B uteo, a PP^ 6 j g a 
B. plumipes, which I had formerly seen several times, hut could not get a shot at. 
very wary bird.” a p<l 
Dr. Scully shot three females at Yarkand in January. He gives the measurenic^ 
soft parts. According to him, it is “ common near Yarkand during the winter. # t ed 
specimen was called ‘ Kara Sa,’ the Black Set, hut this species was really not discrJ.au ^ 
from the preceding species (IB. ferox). B. plumipes was never met with in the p ai 
the winter was fairly over.” 
during 
the 
Dr. Scully also records the Common Buzzard (Buteo vulgaris) as common 
winter in the neighbourhood of Yarkand ; but the Hume Collection did not c ° 
specimen, and I rather question the identification. 
8. Buteo eerox. .. il3 
Buteo ferox (Grn.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 176, pi. 8 (1874); Blanf. East. Peisify p, 4? > 
(1876) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 124 (1876) ; Wardl. Rams. Ibis, 1880, p. 47 ; Bidd. Ibis, 1 ’ sC8 sp- 
Scully, ibid. p. 420 ; C. Swink. Ibis, 1882, p. 99 ; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 53 ; Zarudn. Ojs. ‘ 
p. 26 (1885) ; Scully, J. A. S. Beng. lvi. p. 78 (1887) ; Radde, Oruis, iii. p. 470; Sharp > 
Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. pt. 3, p. 66 (1889) ; Menzbier, Orn. Turkest. p. 204 (1889). 
Buteo leucurus, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 63 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 103. 
Buteo aquilinus, Hume & Ilenders. Lahore to Yark. p. 175 (1873). 
Ad. Yarkand, November 8, 1873. 
No. 1172. Kashghar, December 21, 1873. “ Sa.” 
No. 1406. Ighiz Yar, March 22, 1874. 
No. 1729. Kizil, May 19, 1879. 
Dr. Henderson procured a specimen of the sooty form of this Buzzard at DU 
near Saidabad, on the road from Kashmir to the plains. 
Mr. Hume gives some notes on the plumages of the species. 
Dr 
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of 
. Scully shot specimens near Yarkand in January and February, and he gives 
the soft parts and measurements. He says that it was very common in the plains 0 f 
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p lains oi 
Turkestan during the winter, and, in common with the other two species of D uZ5 f l js 
in the country, disappeared in the spring. How well its specific name of ferox is foi' 
illustrated by the following note of Dr. Scully “ I kept one of these Buzzards a 
some time, and found its disposition anything but gentle ; when I went up to i ^ j fl » 
throw itself on its back and strike out violently with its claws. It got loose one nig f 
room in which I had a number of other birds, and committed dreadful havoc, tin 5 
least half a dozen birds, among the number a Kestrel. The Yarkandi shikaris ^ a ^g U isli 
Buzzard ‘ Tokhmak Sa ’ (the Mallet { Sa ’) ; but I do not believe they could really i lS 
it from the other species of Buzzard.” 
Dr. Severtzow says: — “This species feeds on different Arvicolce which are c °^ 
the Pamir and innumerable on the Alai. It was seen near Ran-Kul in J uly 311 jj 0 dg9-) 
but I do not know where it breeds. The dark variety of this species (B. aquili tMtS ’ 
is also common enough.” 
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Subfam. AQUILINJE, 
Genus GYPAETUS. 
9. Gypaetus barbatus. 
Gypaetus barbatus (L.) ; Hume & Herders. Lahore to Yark. p. 170 (1873) ; 
Severtz. Turk est \: ^ 
Jev 
■otu- 
p. 99 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 99; Prjev. in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. ii. p 
. 138 (1877)5 
