48 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
On the 24th of March Colonel Biddulph shot a couple of male birds, one adult al ^j l6 y 
immature, in the Kirog Valley. These two specimens he gave to Mr. Mandelli, ant ^ 
passed with the rest of the Mandelli Collection into Mr. Hume’s hands, and they are 
the British Museum (cf. Sharpe, l. c.). 
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91. Embebiza stewabti. 
Emberiza steivcirti, Blyth ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 248 ; Ward I aw Ramsay, Ibis, 1879, p. 446, 1889, P^ , 
Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 81; Scully, t. c. p. 575; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 113; Bidd. ib^- 1 
Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 547 (1888). 
Emberiza caniceps] Gould; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873). 
No. 77. Murree, July 2, 1873. 
No. 83. Changligally, near Murree, July 2, 1873. 
No. 121. Chuttrebelas, July 16, 1873. 
No. 189, $ . Srinagar, July 28, 1873. 
92. Embebiza leucocephala. 
Ibis, 
18 P> 
Emberiza leucocephala, Cm. ; Hume & Henderson, Lahore to Yark. p. 254 (1873) ; Dresser, t e. 
Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 79; Scu 
Sharpe, 
ylisc. 
p. 248 ; Finseh, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxix. p. 215 (1879) 
p. 574; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 113 ; Bidd. ibid. p. 282; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 60; 
B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 549 (1888) ; id. Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. pt. 3, p. 81 (1889). 
Emberiza pityornis, Pall. ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873) ; Prjev. in Rowley’s Orn. 
p. 307 (1877) ; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 90. 
No. 888. Sanju, October 27, 1873. [An adult male in winter plumage.] fo ill 
No. 1477. Panjah, April 16, 1874. — Length 7'3 inches, wing 3 6, tail 3 - 0, tarsus ^C g b ; 
from front 0‘4, from gape 0 5. Iris brown ; bill dusky, lower mandible pal e 
feet fleshy brown, soles yellowish. r0 . 
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This species was met with by Dr. Henderson in October in large flocks near , b) r a 
in the Sind Valley. They had probably been driven down from the pine-forests a 0 
fall of snow which had occurred a few days previously. 
Genus MELOPHTJS. 
93. Melophtjs melanictebus. 
Melophus melanicterus (Gm.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 568 (1888). 
6 ad. No locality. 
No. 122, <s ad. Chuttrebelas, July 16, 1873. 
