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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Nos. 973, 974, ad. Karghalik, November 6, 1873. 
No. 1109, ad. Yangihissar, December 2, 1873. 
No. 1204, ad. Kaskghar, January 15, 1874. 
No. 1206, ad. Kaskghar, January 17, 1874. 
No. 1212, ad. Kaskghar, January 19, 1874. 
Nos. 1224-1226, ad. Kashghar, January 23, 1874 
One of these is a cream-coloured variety, 
entirely white.” 
Nos. 1230, 1246, 1248, 1249, 1259, ad. Maralbashi, January 1874. 
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Dr. Stoliczka mentions in his ‘ Diary ’ that the Tree-Sparrow first became abun 
Kiwaz on the 20th of February. On the 14th of January he saw the first Passer 
pairing and selecting a place for a nest. On the 22nd of May he procured a number 0 
at Yarkand, and writes in his 8 Diary — 88 The eggs are rather large, and vary much m rUc 
It builds in houses, but prefers holes of trees, and makes a large nest, inside thic 1 
with wool, cotton, rags, &c. I saw as many as twelve eggs in one nest, and I wonder 
they are all from the same bird.” , ffU st, 
Dr. Scully states that the Tree-Sparrow breeds in Eastern Turkestan from May 1° ' ° 0 f 
and he believes that it rears two broods in the year. It is “the Common ®b :U , ..pited 
year. 
Eastern Turkestan, where it is a permanent resident. It abounds everywhere near 
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places and cultivated fields, up to an elevation of about 7500 feet. The Turki name ,^ s 
Tree-Sparrow is 8 Ak Kuchkack,’ i. e . 8 The “White Bird,’ in Kliokand, and by the AwHi^^r 
called 8 Ckumchuk,’ but a Yarkandi would not understand what was meant by ^ l0 
name. 
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Dr. Henderson writes : — 88 The Tree-Sparrow of Europe is the House-SparroW 
of Yarkand, where it is almost as familiar and impudent as the English or Indian 
Sparrow. It was seldom noticed in the fields, or indeed anywhere except in and a 
houses. In Turki it is called 8 Chum-Chuk.’ ” 
71. Passer domesticus. 
Fringilla domestica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 323 (1766). £ J> st " 
Passer domesticus (L.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 239 ; ® ^ 
Persia, ii. p. 254 (1876); Tacz. Bui). Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 78 (1876) ; Finsch, “V er J 1- % . Yd’- 
Gesellsch. Wien, 1879, p. 209 ; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 112; Homeyer & Tancre, kll^ 
Wien, 1883, p. 89; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 308 (1888) ; Oates, Faun. Brit 
ii. p. 236 (1890). 
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Passer indicus, J. & S. ; Hume & Headers. Lahore to Yark. p. 252 (1873) ; Blanf. East. Persi®^ . pid 
(1877) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 63; Bkld. Ibis, 1881, p. 79; Scully, ibid. p- 
Ibis, 1882, p. 281 ; Scully, J. A. S. Beng. lvi. p. 85 (1887) ; Radde, Ornis, iii- P- 4 
Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 79 (1889). 
Passer domesticus indicus, Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 8. 
Nos. 245, 246, s ? ad. Srinagar, August 2, 1873. 
No. 534, <$ ad. Sasptil, Ladak, August 25, 1873. 
Nos. 556, 561, <$ , 563, 567, $ ad. Leh, August 28, 1873. 
The bright-coloured race of the Common Sparrow, Passer indicus of authors 
met with by the Expedition beyond Leh, and Dr. Henderson states that it was 
in Yarkand ; nor is the species in Dr. Scully’s list. 
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