AYES. 
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N°. 134 TT 
• Urumbu, July 24, 1873. 
Inis ST10 „' , . „ 
'l )e cies is found throughout the Himalayas and extends to Gilgit. 
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^ICA 
Genus PICA. 
PICA. 
Cor 
Pica ‘ccmd Linn ‘ S ‘ N ‘ 1 P ' 157 (1766 )- 
Pi cu bactri ^ ^ Cvcitz ‘ Murkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873) ; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 58 (1885). 
Pica r,,J : am ’,J Av ' ’ Hume & Senders. Lahore to Yark. p. 240; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 158 (1876). 
r mir „ 1 1 ~~ * UJ P- ; ocuny, air. 
Hams. , tv° P ‘'’ Dresse L Ibis, 1875, p. 238; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 264 (1876); Wardlaw 
p 1^80, p. 63; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 78; Scully, ibid. p. 572; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, 
(18871 5 o° meyer & Taucr( ', MT. orn. Vcr. Wien, 1883, p. 
Pica media PaUn ‘ Brit - lnd '-> Eirds > 1 P- 24 (1889). 
88 ; Scully, J. A. S. Beng. lvi. p. 85 
Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 62 (1877) ; id. Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. pt. 3, 
fiica pic7n Pr .i cv - iu Rowley’s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 278 (1877). 
( Jj 0 J Sharpe 
jP- 69 (1889). 
449 n -v 
N°. 433' ^ hll iscambo, August 18, 1873. 
^ T o. 5 io' ® hai ’gol, August 20, 1873. 
^eh. August 27, 1873. 
(tt° i Ulm) le fd,ove specimens are in full moult.] 
■^o. 92 q _ Sa, \ju, October 28, 1873. “Hakke” (Kolcand); “Saghizghan” (Turlci). 
A o. ijg, knnju, November 1, 1873. 
^°. X 523 ^hakmak, Thian-Shan, January 3, 1874. 
Alth Pan -' ah ’ A P ril 14-23, 1873. 
^ a gpies atu perfectly willing to admit that the amount of white on the quills in the 
rpl eall e( j _p COnsi( Ierably, yet none of the above specimens approach the white-winged 
^Patently 0n j euco P^ era > which was only obtained in the vicinity of Yarkand. Dr. Scully 
w at Y a q. met ^ ie ordinary form of Magpie, but the winter specimens observed 
2 a Spie was q !,^ a ^ Were probably P. leucoptera . He gives the following note: — “This 
a 1 °f Sept ei ^| ° )sei ’ ved > within the limits of Kasbgliaria, at Kiwaz (elevation 7500) on the 
. dter e jj. wag 01 ’ A ^ er that it was not seen until we reached Kashghar in October, 
^ dlecemh er S ( 0,nnion i Q gardens and on roadside tx*ees during the months of November 
t ^ a 8glers av e 1 . ^ ! le ^ird appears to be almost unknown at Yarkand, where only a few 
0 ° e 0asi Olls 0ecasiona Uy seen in winter. On the return journey in August it was seen on 
Pear s to pa ' rs ne ar Kizil Aghil and the Chucliu Pass. In summer this species 
and so J fi Plc Bldds round Eastern Turkestan, viz. north of Aksu and Kashghar, 
^r.” fpi ° a 1 oP Yarkand and of Sanju, descending to the borders of the plains in 
j-*r. Header ^ rce(Ps a t Gilgit. 
V jU ^°ji-la i n | 0 °! T sta ^ es that this species was “first met with at Dras, soon after crossing 
1 Until tfi a c a ^ - A U through this latter province it was common about every 
aslla mbri.’ ” 0 an g°ug Lake was reached. In Ladak it appears to bear the title of 
l n 
r Il( J l<: ktdug Vall^^i Wl ^ es ' ' ^ c Brs t Pou n d this at Kargil, and it became very common 
ah Wl 
tv 
'°ut 
itU a Map ^ we l° s t it directly we crossed into the Pangong valley. We again 
^ tiroes and" ^ " march al ° ove Sanju, and thence we found it very common 
10 kand r w e l CU . il " vataon the whole way to Kashghar and to Maralbashi ; but on our way 
os t it beyond Aktala, the first camping-ground in the hills (5500 feet).” 
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