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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
the spring it was particularly common. They were generally in small parties, the inclivhh 1 ^ 
of which, however, were a good deal scattered. They usually perched about on bushes- 
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never remember hearing any song, nor did I see them in fields." Dr. Henderson 
three specimens on the banks of the Arpalik River, in Hill Yarkand, a short distance 
where the plains commence. 
Genus MONTIFRIWGILLA. 
62. Montifringilla adamsi. 
Montifringilla adamsi, Moore, MS.; Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 482, 1859, p. 178, pi. 156 ; Hume & ■ v- 
derson, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 262 (1873) ; Stoliczka, Str. F. ii. p. 463 (1874) ; Scully, S tl '‘ gj ; 
p. 172 (1876); Prjev. in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 289 (1877) ; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, PP- j^., 
Priev. Ibis 1884, p. 244; Sliarpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 261 (1888) ; Oates, Faun. b u 
Birds, ii. p. 246 (1890). ^ 
No. 491. Kharbu, Ladak, August 21, 1873. — Iris light brown ; bill horny 
yellowish at base of lower mandible; feet black. Length 7‘2 inches, wing 
tail 3 0, tarsus 0'8 ; bill from front 0'5, from gape 062. q 0 w 
Apparently an adult male after breeding, with the bill just beginning to turn } 
The terminal third of the inner secondaries only is white, and in most of th e |f ijy 
black or brown colour extends to the end of the outer web. The back is incus 
streaked with dark brown. 
No. 496. Kharbu, August 21, 1873. 
A male in worn breeding-dress, very similar to the foregoing. 
No. 499. Kharbu, August 21, 1873. 
Quite a young bird in ashy-brown plumage ; the head rather darker ashy 
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scapulars with broad longitudinal centres of dark brown ; rump and upper tai ^ito 
blackish, the lateral coverts white ; lesser and median coverts brown, the la^^ ^ed 
at the ends; greater coverts white, with concealed blackish bases, externally ' . 
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with pale tawny buff and dark brown at the ends ; bastard-wing and primary- “quill 8 
dark brown, the latter with a little concealed white patch on the inner we ’ . 
dark brown, edged with ashy fulvous, the secondaries with pale tawny bun, ^ 
ones subterminally white on the inner web, this not extending to the Tihp, ceP tre 
feather ; tail-feathers brown, broadly margined with pale tawny buff, all but T***, 
feathers with more or less white on the inner web, the outer ones almost jjd, 
white, with an external wash of tawny and a small tip of dark brown ; lores, 
and a streak along the sides of the hinder crown asliy whitish; sides of face ^ 
with a yellowish tinge, the ear-coverts pale ashy brown ; throat and breast ha ^\e 
the centre of the breast and abdomen yellowish white ; sides of body and 
fulvescent brown ; under tail-coverts white, fulvescent at the ends ; urU 0 
coverts and axillaries wliite. 
505. Kharbu, August 22, 1873. vV liit 6 
An adult bird, apparently a female, with the bill almost entirely yellow. ^ 
tips to the median wing-coverts are abraded, so that these appear to be brown .^g 
lesser coverts, and the primary-coverts are only white in the middle, there 
broad basal as well as a terminal mark of dark brown. 
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Nos. 520, 522. Lamaguru, August 23, 1873. 
An old male in worn breeding-plumage and a young male in first plumage- 
latter the whole under surface of the body is washed with pale yellow. 
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