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999, ad. Yarkand, November 12, 1873. — Length 7'5 inches, wing 3'57, tail 3 '2, 
arsus 0-95 ; expanse 11*2 ; bill from front 0-45, from gape 0\8 ; length of foot 1'55. Iris 
]\t o 1Tnyn 5 hill dusky brown above, pale at base of lower mandible ; feet brownish black. 
ad. East of Ighiz Yar, May 19, 1874. — Got four eggs on a pear-tree 10 feet 
]y 0 a _ 0Ve ground. 
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993, ad. Kizil, May 19, 1874. — Got two eggs on a tree about 15 feet above ground, 
o i a< h Yarkand, May 15-20, 1874. 
-°0, ad. Kugiar, June 1, 1874. 
a tl( | ‘Diary ’ Dr. Stoliczka has the following notes : — “ Kizil, May 19. Near a small house 
^ e tttal >!'" a hout ten miles east of Ighiz Yar I got the nest of this Lanins (shooting the 
lale) 
orL a pear-tree, between branches about ten feet above the ground. The nest is 
y ound - — 
‘Glow,’ Uld ^ e °f twigs outside, with some grass and cotton and old rags interwoven together. 
a *iotlinl! ei ° e ggs m the nest, the young being nearly fully developed 
Gilev r\ 4. u • 
that b e u gh up on a tree, with two fresh eggs.’ 
saw full-fledged voung near Besliterek. 
colonel , ,, -r 
At Kizil I got 
On the 31st of May, 1874, he states 
basE i • <>3le ^ Giddulph sends us a note : — “ I shot the first specimen, a solitary one, at Maral- 
May” ln T f Uly - It was peculiarly common everywhere in the plains when we returned in 
dev : 
a’son 
is evidently this species, as Dr. Scully suspects, which was procured by Dr. Hen- 
Dr. Scully writes : — “ The Desert Shrike is very common in 
the pl a p 1K ^ ca ^ e ^ L. cristatus , 
Yarha Nasligharia, where it breeds. I obtained my first specimen of this species near 
of A c 0n Die 14th April, and from that date it was observed continuously up to the 15th 
aho u t \Q St ’ Wlleu 1 saw the last of this Shrike north of the Chuchu Pass, at an elevation of 
PO'Ssibi . It was not observed at all during the winter, and with the exception of 
October & ^ 6W s ^ ra y stragglers, the bird no doubt migrates from Eastern Turkestan about 
i\fay an ’| 09s agrees exactly with the native account of the matter. The bird breeds in 
une.” Dr. Scully gives a full account of the eggs. 
Eamily AMPELID2E. 
Ipy Genus AMPE LIS. 
• ^pelis GAURUlxjs. 
mpe !* S 9 arr ulus, L. ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 188; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 153 (1876); Prjev. in 
owley’s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 273 (1877) ; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Yer. Wien, 1883, p. 88 ; 
JS 0rn , m T°> Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. p. 212 (1885). 
vy Cilia aarruln (T. \ . 
Th* 
for M r ^ s P ec ies was only procured by Dr. Scully, who writes “ This bird was purchased 
• law in the bazaar of Yarkand, where it was being carried about perched on a man’s 
■I c 
yurrula (L.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 67 (1873). 
froger, 
s °Hiid t <l f > P ear °d to be very quiet in confinement, and was never heard to utter any 
Pad j Ujt , 1 S00n died, however, and before we left Yarkand Mr. Shaw gave me the skin, as I 
its den S( , Je ° U a ^ e procure a specimen. When alive the bird had a beautiful appearance : 
I heard V^° SS ^ ^ eat ^ ers g ave it rather the look of a perfect wax model than a living bird, 
also b e Sever al sources that this species w r as common in the hills near Aksu, and I 
r °h its occurrence in Sarikol ; the bird is never seen in the plains of Eastern 
