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lots of low thorny hushes in this valley, and in these we found the birds in pairs. They ^ 
pretty numerous, but very difficult to shoot, as on our approach they concealed them 
I heard no song. A few days later we found them immediately below the Sanju Pass, 011 ^ 
northern side, in similar jungle at about 11,000 feet. We also saw this species, I am sUlC ^ r( j 
our way up to the Pamir in similar localities at about the same elevations. A y° un " Qlll . 
was certainly procured at Leh in June, but with this exception we saw none elsewhere ° n 
way back.” . 
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This pretty little species,” writes Dr. Scully, “ was met with in Kashghana m 
ibuk, sb f U r e 
The birds * 
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along the banks of the Ivarakash River, at Pilataghach, Toglirasu, Oibuk, 8b' 1 
Balakchi, and Gulgun Shah, at elevations of from 10,800 to 13,000 feet, me 
numerous and continually hopping about or flitting from place to place in the Tm ia , c py 
buckthorn, and Hololachie bushes growing on the banks of the river ; they uttered a 
loud, sweet chirping cry. I do not know which was most difficult, to see these birds, to 
them, or to find them when shot, in the dense bushes which they frequent.” 
Genus PAWURUS. 
135. Pantjkl's biakmictts. 
Calamophilus biarmicus (L .) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 154 (1876 ) ; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn 
1883, p. 85. 
Parnnts barbatus, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 66 (1873). 
Punurus biarmicus, Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 94; Prjev. in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 191 (1877)- 
Calamophilus barbatus, Radde, Ornis, iii. p. 476 (1887). 
No. 035, 6 . Oi-tograk, November 4, 1873. — Length 6‘8 inches, wing 2A5, 
expanse 7 ‘5. Iris golden ; bill reddish yellow ; feet black. 
No. 936, ? . Oi-tograk, November 4, 1873. — Length 6- 85 inches, wing 2 6, 
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black streak 
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tarsus 0-9 ; expanse 7*07. Iris yellow ; bill dusky yellow ; feet black ; mm» 
within 2 - 75 inches of end of tail. 
Nos. 937, 939. Oi-tograk, November 4, 1873. 
Nos. 1002, 1003. Yarkand, November 11, 1873. ^ j. a p) 
No. 1015. Yarkand, November 13, 1873. “ Kuckace ” (Yarkand) ; “Cachee ( 
Nos. 1016, 1022, 1023. Yarkand, November 13, 1873. 
Nos. 1036, 1037, 1038, 1040, 1041. Yarkand, November 22, 1873. 
All young birds of the last season, No. 1040 having still some 
back. 
Nos. 1081, 1087. Yarkand, November 28, 1873. 
No. 1235. Maralbashi, January 1874. 
Nos. 1713, 1716. Yarkand, May 22, 1874. 
Dr. Stoliczka states in his ‘ Diary ’ that he shot the first specimen of this bird, w U olJ 
not know, just as he was leaving Oi-tograk, in the high reed-grass, where it mas ® ^ & 
the seeds of the latter. He got it again in November near Yarkand in swampy » l ° sum 
is rather interesting, in view of the affinities set forward for the Reedling hy^ 
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others, that Dr. Stoliczka, in the later pages of his diary, refers to it as the “ nem ■ p " u g&bj Ll 
“ Calamophilus biarmicus” writes Colonel Biddulph, “we first got betme 
and Karghalik at Oi-tograk in November, in high reed-grass, in bush-jungle, » 
