AYES. 
37 
^°^' c ' z ^ a j in his £ Diary,’ notes that the present species was very common near Sanju 
itober, and on the 
on the Sanju hills. 
Dr - South J 
°n the 9- , a ’ in hls 
s t)poi*« 7' 1 of October, and on the 20th of the same month he mentions it as the only 
1 7 s lie noticed 
even ti Wr ites : — “This species is only a winter visitant to Eastern Turkestan, and 
Near Y^l ^ ^ T1 °^ common > it is said to migrate eastwards, towards China, in the spring. 
app ea ar| d it frequents a sort of desert bush called KamghaJc , on the seeds of which it 
8 t0 fe ed. It is rather a favourite cage-bird with the Yarkandis, on account of its 
sweet 
Somy ” 
o* 
n i 
s Pecie.s 1 - ®^dulph sends this note : — “ We first obtained one or two specimens of this 
8ever a i & (13)000 feet) in September. Again in the Karakash valley in October 
they l^efeiens were procured on our arrival at Sanju in the beginning of November; 
specj nUiii ^° seen settling in immense flocks in short grass in the morning. A few 
Very Co S Wcre obtained during the winter in Kashgliar, and in Wakhan in April we found it 
mon - They are chiefly ground-birds.” 
Pet; 
Genus PETRONIA. 
Ronia 
Fri 
PETRONIA. 
Pa^er <l Petron ia> Linn. S. N. i. p. 322 (1766). 
Fyrr j/ ° n ^ a ’ Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 420. 
Petro. Upetronia (h.) ; Prjev. in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 288 (1877) ; Radde, Ornis, iii. p. 481 (1887). 
*« (Gm.) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 255 (1876) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 79 ; Scully, ibid. 
Petr on °^ i C ' Swirdl - Ibis, 1882, p. 113; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 243 (1890). 
Fetro J 1 reV ^ ros ^ s > T^cz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 179 (1876). 
na P etr onia, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 289 (1888). 
0 ~ 10 ' Kashghar, January 19, 1874. Length 6' 5 inches, wing 4, tail 2 - 33, tarsus 
I r p ex panse 12 - 2 ; bill from front 0'57, from gape 0'7 ; length of foot 1'4. 
on S +i " e ^ ow feb brown ; bill bluish dusky, pale below ; feet fleshy brown, more dusky 
No 1 tae soles - 
J '’0. 1290 -rr 
No. l2 ^ - Naslighar, January 23, 1874. 
No. ] 9 K ’ ^205, 1268, 1269. Kashghar, January 24, 1874. 
No. Igor.' fe as bgbar, January 25, 1874. 
Kashghar, February 10, 1874. 
VO. 
l A$Ser 
F '‘' in !nllu 
Genus PASSER. 
^lONTANUs. 
Passer n ‘ mntana > Linn - Syst. Nat. i. p. 324 (1766). 
Jev °^ anus (-^ ■) J Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 500 (1856); Severtz. Turkest. 
blani' 1 p 5 ^ (1873) ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 254 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 239 ; 
jtj, . st> Persia, ii. p. 255 (1876); Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 178 (1876); Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. 
I^ r icn C 1 'i > * ^ ~ 8 (1876) ; Prjev. in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 294 (1877); Finsch, Verb. z.-b. Ges. 
Tan 'f / t J ‘ 210; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 64; St. John, t. c. p. 145; Homeyer & 
Muf ^ MT ' 0m ' Ver ‘ Wien , 1883 ’ P- 89 i lladde ’ 0rnii b hi- p- 482 (1887) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 
Nq XU ' I J ' 39 ‘^ C 888 ) ; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 240 (1890). 
os. 880 o? iWdz ’ October 26, 1873. 
5 4, 885, ad. Kiwaz, October 26, 1873. 
