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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
the 
Dr. Stoliczka says in Lis £ Diary ’ that he got two nests and eggs near Yarkanc o ^ ^ 
23rd of May. One nest was in a vine-hnslx about eight feet above the ground, and olU .^ e 0 f 
mulberry-tree about twenty feet above the ground. The nest was large, composed ou ^.^d, 
thin twigs of a thorny bush, inside with a thick lining of cotton and old rags ant 
- - ~ ‘ incn i 
The whole nest is somewhat loosely or carelessly made, roundish, and about an 
There were from four to five eggs in a nest ; one had nearly de i 
but three inches wide, 
young, so the bird must begin breeding about the beginning of May. The 
bluish, with some short streaks or dots of dark brown round the thicker end. 
egg s 
are p 
d 
ale 
Genus BUCANETES. 
68. Bucanetes mongolicus. 
Carpodacus mongolicus, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 447, 1871, p. 480; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, P 
Str. F. iv. p. 169 (1876). 
Erythrospiza mongolica (Swinh.), Prjev. in Rowley’s Orn 
.56; ScuHf’ 
dl- 
. i v e rlia» (U 
. Misc. ii. p. 303 (1877) ; Finsch, > r6; 
z.-b. Gesellsch. Wien, xxix. p. 212 (1879) ; Barnes, Str. F. ix. p. 457 (1880); Ho“ e yer^ 
& Ta* cre ' 
MT. orn. Yer. Wien, 1883, p. 93 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 287 (1888) 
Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 222 (1890). ^ 0 ^ 5 . 
Erythrospiza incarnata, Severtz. Turkcst. Jevotn. pp. 64, 117 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p- 
Bucanetes mongolicus, Menzbier, Ibis, 1885, p. 353. 
No. 625, juv. Leh, September 14, 1873. . m pal e 
No. 728, d juv. Mug-lib, east of Tanksi, September 18, 1873. — Iris brown, .^ c |, e s, 
fleshy brownish ; feet fleshy yellowish brown, soles orange. Length 
wing 3-3, tail 2‘35, tarsus 09. 
No. 729, $ juv. Muglib, September 18, 1873. 
No. 887. Sanju, October 27, 1873. _ . fe^ 
No. 891, 6 ad. Sanju, October 28, 1873. — Iris brown ; bill yellowish pale h°rP^ 
horny brown ; tarsi with a reddish tinge. Length 6 - 3 inches, wing 3 - 7o, 
tarsus 0 - 7. 
Nos. 934, 941. Sanju, October 30, 1873. 
Nos. 1133, 1135, 1147, 1148. Kashghar, December 11 to 15, 1873. 
Nos. 1182-1192. Chakmak, January 7 to 9, 1874. 
Nos. 1261, 1262, 1270, 1281, 1282. Kashghar, January 24 to 31, 1874. 
Nos. 1306, 1328, 1331, 1332, 1334, 1347, 1349, 1351, 1352. Kashghar, Eebruary 4 t0 
No. 1439. Tashkurghan, March 30, 1874. 
No. 1519. Panjah, April 23, 1874 
The young bird resembles the adult female and has very little rosy colour on 
and none at all on the coverts or face. The upper surface and the wing-covei'ts 
bL-own, and the whole breast and flanks are suffused with sandy buff. iLll0 pet el 
In the £ Catalogue of Birds ’ I adopted the generic name Erythrospiza for the * 
Bullfinches. Count Salvadori, however, has written to me as follows fl 11 ' 
Erythrospiza, Bp., was established much earlier than in the £ Eauna Italica.’ * ° u ^ . g 
it in the £ Osservazioni al Regno Animate del Baron Cuvier,’ p. 80 (1840), an _ ( 
* v.„ TT ~KT 1 111 o 4 TJ/xmvnoP'fP lH ^ .’ns 
the I 111 
ills- 
gaudy 
equivalent of Carpodacus of Kaup. You have not noticed that Bonaparte ni e0 ies 
Italica,’ both in the £ Introduzione ’ and in the text of E. githaginea, says that t llS 
not a typical Erythrospiza. So the genus Bucanetes must be used.” 
