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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Nos. 392, 393, 399, 403. Mataian, August 14, 1873. 
No. 409. Mataian, August 15, 1873. — Length 6*25 inches, wing 3 '8, tail 2'55, tarsus ^ 
expanse 11*5; hill from front 0*43, from gape 0*53; length of foot 1*4. I r * s 
brown. ; hill horny ; feet blackish horny. 
No. 521. Lamaguru, August 23, 1873. 
No. 720. Imm. Tanksi, September 17, 1873. 0 - 72 ; 
No. 1471, rf . Panjah, April 16, 1874. — Length 6*5 inches, wing 4, tail 2*78, tarsus ^ 
expanse 12 ; bill from front 0*4, from gape 0*5 ; length of foot 1*37, spread of 
Iris yellowish brown ; bill dusky brown, pale at root and below ; f ce ^ 
brown. 
Nos. 1491, 1493, 1495. Panjah, April 14-23, 1874. 
No. 1544. Panjah, April 24, 1874. 
No. 1581. Langarkisli, April 26, 1874. 
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Dr. Stoliczka’s series contains apparently specimens of both sexes, and the series 
my account of the absence of difference between them. What the above-named authoi^ 
‘Diary,’ took for the old hens must have been immature birds. On the 16th of - Ajfing 
notes that the species was still migrating in large flocks near Sasstekke, but was be -■ g< 
to pair. On the march up the Zoji-la, he found this species common “just on v0 ice> 
It flies about in flocks, very much like a Lark feeding on the ground. It has a chirp iri » „ 
not unlike that of Passer , and indeed replaces it, for we did not see one of the latter ho 1 ^ 
Colonel Biddulph procured a female bird at Sakti on the 14th of September, | ^’ uC fi 
12,800 feet. Mr. Hume has appended to the specimen the following note : — “ This | s 
more rufescent than winter and spring birds. The whole of the head, nape, uee r 
throat, face, and upper breast are streaked with dull ferruginous brown, darkest on 
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The tips of the median and greater coverts, margins to the tertiaries and later seco r 
and centre tail-feathers bright rufous-buff; back more mingled with rufous ; tips t° ^ 
tail-coverts rufescent and nearly obsolete.” Colonel Biddulph also obtained sp ct ‘h lie jfe 
Panjah in Wakhan in April 1874, and also in tbe Kalustan valley on the 6th of J ulie ' f u p, 
sends us the following note : — “"We found it on the Sakti Pass in September when 
and all along the Karakash valley. It was also common in Wakhan in April and a 
Kalustan valley in June. It seems generally common in the hills south of Turkes a 
I did not observe it in the plains country or higher up than 13,000 feet.” s trc^ nh 
“This species,” says Dr. Scully, “was observed near the course of the Sanj u ' rg0 ri 
between Tam and Kichak-Yailak, at elevations from 8900 to 12,000 feet.” Dr. fiiV e< ^ 
obtained a single specimen at Dras in Ladak, and thinks that some few birds proha 3 
there. 
65. MoNTIF RIN GILL A BRANDTI. j b is, 
Leucosticte brandti, Bp. Consp. i. p. 537 (1850) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873) ; Pi' esser ’ 
1875, p. 242; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 88; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 58. . gciiHh 
Montifringi/la hatmatopygia, Gould; Ilume & Henderson, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 261 (1^ / 
Str. F. iv. p. 171 (1876). 
Montifrmgilla branclli (Bp.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 269 (1888). 
Leucosticte hcematopjgia, Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 58. 
Leucosticte pamirensis, Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 58. 
Fringillauda brandti , Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 248 (1890). 
