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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Genus PYRRHOCORAX. 
43. PYRRHOCORAX PYRRHOCORAX. 
Corvus pyrrhocorax, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 158 (1766). . Jev<k n ' 
Pyrrhocorax alpinus, V. ; Hume & Ilenders. Lahore to Yark. p. 249(1873); Severtz. lul " ' q87 6 )’ 
p. 64 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p.237; Blanf. Geol. & Zool. E. Persia, n. P- 
Prjev. in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 285 (1877) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii- P- 1 8^’ 
Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 78; Scully, t. c. p. 573; Ilomeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Y ° r ’ teSj Faii»‘ 
p. 88; Zarudn. Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, 1885, p. 59; Radde,Ornis, iii. p. 474 (1887) ; 
Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 44 (1889). _ ^ 
No. 525, $ . N.E. of Lamaguru on the road to the Indus.— Length 15 inches, t jp ; 
tail 6'5, tarsus 1*5. Iris dark brown; bill pale fleshy horny, darkest to 
feet and toes blackish brown. A solitary specimen. .| eS ei'i1 )C ^ 
This is the individual which Stoliczka thought might belong to an ui ^. 0S 
species. As Mr. Hume has rightly conjectured, it is only the young ot 
(vel pyrrhocorax). _ • in-fi tad ^ 
No. 531. Saspul on the Indus, August 25, 1873. — Length 17 inches, wing 
tarsus 1-7. Iris brown ; hill yellow ; feet coral-red. ^ „ 
No. 852. North of Shahidula, Karakash, October 22, 1873. “ Kara-shachshag- 
No. 1419. Sasstekke, February 23, 1874. 
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Colonel Biddulph’ s note runs “ Found both in Himalayas, Karakorum (I <1 J 1 
lU'-V 
11LO JLAIJ.CULL kJUttU)) anti tu.v x v — ^ , T 
always found higher up than the Red-billed Choughs; except at the Pamir, t V? v pS7^)' 
Uolonel BuUiulpn s note runs : — r ouna uutu m ' ^ tbe y 
the Thian Shan), and the Pamir, as well as the mountains leading to it. As a ru e ^ leS s 
always iuunu niguei up uuu tuu ucu uutuu — /AfaV 
common than these latter, but at Aktash (12,600 feet) they were very numerous ( 1 'ray > 
Dr. Stoliczka found it breeding near Sasstekke on the 16th of May. 
44. PODOCES BIDDTTLPHI. 
Genus PODOCES. 
(Plate IY.) 
15 
1(187 
D- 
by 
Podoces biddulphi, Hume, Str. E. ii. pp. 503, 529 (1874) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. in. P- 
No, 1258, d . Maralbashi, January 1874. i ba gbi 
The typical specimen of Ik biddulphi was a female, procured at ^ ia ^ 
Colonel Biddulph on the 10th of January, and it is now in the British Muse 
No. 1730. Yarkand, May 15-20, 1874. “ Bought alive in bazaar.” bo th tl ’ < j 
This is a young bird, and it has a much shorter bill than the adults, an ^ tM 
bill and the legs are horny brown, instead of being black, the wings 0 f t 1 
are like those of the adult, but there is a broader black mark along the c ^ ^ sb 0 "’ 
middle tail-feather. The black facial markings are only just commend » 
and the black head is obscured by broad sandy buff tips to the feathers. i\Rk l 
- road to ,^e 
-dung; ^ eJ . c li 
Colonel Biddulph writes : — “I first saw these beyond Yengi-awat, on the 
if 
bashi. They were generally in pairs or singly on the road, pecking at hoise ^ p 
country was rather broken and covered with bushes. When alarmed, they Hy u l^ ^ :£ir y 
on the topmost twigs of the bush. I heard no cry, but they are very wild aa gbo t. ^ 
followed they go on from bush to bush, with short flights, always keeping on 
the jungle north of Maralbashi I saw them in largish flocks of from ten to ' '^g, s ° u |, 
in flocks they did not appear quite so wary. The flight is heavy, flapping, TleChouS* 18 ’ 
thing like that of a Woodpecker; it is not in the slightest degree like that of 
