AYES. 
75 
_ ' Yarkand, May 23, 1874. — Length 7 inches, wing 3 ‘4, tail 2 ’8, tarsus 1‘05 ; 
-Panse 10-7; bill from front 0‘5, from gape 0'77. Iris sulphur-yellow; hill dark 
*ny above and at tip of lower mandible, pale fleshy at base ; wings reach within 17 
of end of tail. “Bulbul” ( Turki ). A beautiful songster, of which I got two 
es s and saw several others in gardens. Begins to lay about the middle of May. 
'■Diary* ^ date ^ 1R 24th of May, when the expedition was at Yarkand, Dr. Stoliczka’s 
la °He I ^ ,1° lowing note : — “Grot the nest of the Bulbul: it is very plentiful in the gardens, 
young . 7° ' ^ U ee nests with from four to five eggs ; in one nest they had nearly fully-developed 
Se Ven ^hers the eggs were almost fresh. The nest is on a tree or bush at from four to 
°Utsi c ] e 0 p )0ve the ground; it is a regular Sylvia’s nest, round, regularly cup-shaped, made 
It j s ] 3 . Coa rse grass and thin dry twigs, inside of thin grass interwoven with horse-hair. 
Mth , 1^1 d 1 c ^ e ep, and 2|- inches in inner diameter, perfectly round. Eggs dirty greenish 
dicker enc p eenis k s P°ts, and rounded, with more confluent drill dark blotches round the 
. l>r. nC ' 
ah 
Scull 
a0o nt th e - g lve s a good account of the nesting of this species, which, he says, “arrives 
aev er ^^onrhood of Yarkand in May, and probably migrates about September ; it is 
henc () call wi ^ le coun try during the winter. It has a beautiful and melodious song, and is 
Colonel • the Tarkandis ‘ Bulbul.’ ” 
hanrir ^ Ve e ,. ®^ddulph writes: — “This was not a winter bird, but on our return from the 
w as Co ° Uud k about Yarkand in May, where it had already commenced to breed. It 
habitation ° maion about Karghalik. It is a beautiful songster. It is tame, and comes about 
149 
WOUs. 
Sylv 
Sylvia 
II is a bush- and tree-haunting bird, but it is never seen on the ground. 
IA - CINEREA. 
(lSlT? ^^ echst -) 5 Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 65 (1873); Secbohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
F am , i . dd ‘ Il)is ’ 188 L P- 67; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Yer. Wien, 1883, p. 84; 
W Z a n nt ; „ Ind ” BMsb h P- 395 (1889) . 
N 0 . ' Cld ‘ 5 Dre sser, Ibis, 1876, p. 79 ; Scully, Str. F. 1881, p. 450. 
Y ' hukung, September 19, 1873. 
ln g bird fresh moulted into winter plumage. 
150, 
v. p. 8 
Oates, 
VlA Nana. 
Cat ‘ U \\ & E -) 1 Blanf. East. Persia, ii 
Oates V nt ' MUS ‘ v - P- 36 ( 188: 
y“L Br, ‘- IutL ' Birds ' <• p- 
B B • — ’’ A ci am, ii. p. 178 (1876); Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 80; Seebohm, 
nt. Mus. v. p. 26 (1881) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. pt. 3, p. 71 (1889) ; 
396 (1889). 
p. 4,3 (Vao^ enS ^ S (Dversm.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 65, 124 (1873) ; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. 
Xykiu araL, -^ Menzbier > lhis > 188 ^ P- 354. 
h T 0 _ g ir J cv - m Rowley’s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 170 (1877). 
brownigU^kh^B a ’ October 20, 1873. — Length 5 inches. Iris golden yellow ; bill 
^ ^ 5 P a i e underneath : feet nale vellnw with a faint, cTppuish tin o-o 
ArpI Nls. 
Vlvta affini 
S ee b » Warcllaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 59; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 
L A. S. Beng^ B ! it '. Mus - v ‘ P- 19 ( 1881 ) i Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 41 (1885); Scully, 
67 ; Scully, t. c. p. 450 ; 
p. p. 4 
p. 80 (1887) ; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 397 (1889). 
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