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brown ; bill pale fleshy, tinged witb dusky yellowish at the lateral bases ; n c 
tinged with dusky ; claws dark horny. 
No. 1168, 6 . Kashghar, December 19, 1873. 
No. 1208, <$ . Kashghar, January 18, 1874. 
Nos. 1229, 1231, 1247, < j , 1250, ? , 1254-55, 1257. Maralbashi, January 1874. 
No. 1294, 6 . Kashghar, January 2, 1874. 
No. 1304, <5 . Kashghar, January 3, 1874. 
Kashghar, March 11, 1874. 
1345. Kashghar, February 12, 1874. 
Aioksogon, February 19, 1874. 
Jigda, February 22, 1874. 
Jigda, February 26, 1874. 
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No. 1338, e . 
Nos. 1341, $ 
No. 1369, a . 
No. 1372. 
NO. 1378 . uigua, 
“ In December,” w r rites Colonel Biddulph, “ one or two specimens were obtain 6 ^ ^ 
Kashghar. In January I found it tolerably plentiful along the road to Maralbashi- ^ e y 
them both feeding on the ground and perched in bushes. As far as I can remein 
were always found singly or in pairs.” 
Genus SERIN US. 
75 . Serinus pttsillus. 
Passer pusillus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 28 (1811). 
Serinus pusillus (Pall.) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 243; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 
. 373 (1888)' ^ 
Metoponia pusilla (Pall.) ; Hume & Renders . Lahore to Yark. p. 259 (1873) ; Stoliczka, Str. 1 • Jbi s ^ 
(1874) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 250 (1870) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 0/ , paiH 1 - 
Bidd. t. c. p. 284; Oates, 
1882 
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115 : 
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1881, p. 86; Scully, t. c. p. 578; C. Swinh. Ibis 
Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 230 (1890). 
Orcegithus pusillus (Pall.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 64, 116 (1873). 
No. 412, a . Mataian, August 15, 1873. — Length 5-2 inches, wing 3 - 05, tail 2.2 
0*5 ; expanse 9 ; bill from front 03, from gape 0'4 ; length of foot Pi. I rlS 
bill black ; feet black. 
Nos. 450, 453, imm., 454. Chiliscambo, August 18, 1873. 
No. 460. Kargil, August 19, 1873. 
No. 779, juv. Chagra, September 21, 1873. 
Nos. 1420, $ , 1424, d . Tarbashi, March 27, 1874. 
No. 1559, <s . Panjah, April 25, 1874 [Col. Jordan). 
Nos. 1575-1579. Langarkish, April 26, 1874. _ ^ 
Dr. Stoliczka records this species in his ‘ Diary ’ as a permanent resident at ^ 
Colonel Biddulph’ s localities are the Nubra Valley on the 25th of June, the S P^ Ap 1 ’^’ 
being in full breeding-plumage ; Kargil on the 9th of July ; and Panjah in Wakhan a pd 
He writes : — “We found this species everywhere up to 10,000 feet in the hills s0 .^ j u iy- 
west of Turkestan and Wakhan in spring; also in Ladak, especially about Kargi ^ er .” 
I did not see any in the plains of Turkestan, but I believe they breed there in the sU ^ gfld 
Dr. Henderson states that this Finch was met with in immense flocks, both m ' j/fa? 
October, almost throughout Ladak, from Dras to the Fota-la. It probably bree s 
and not impossibly in Ladak. 
