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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Sylvia curruca (nee Linn.) ; Severtz. Turlcest. Jevotn. p. 65 (1873) ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to ' 
p. 221 (1873) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 175 (1876) ; Prjev. in Rowley’s Oru. Misc. u. P 
{1877) ‘ . 0 . 2 - 6 , 
No. 80. Indus Valley, south of Chimray, September 13, 1873. — Length 5'65 inches, win» Vp 
tail 2-45, tarsus 0‘78; hill from front 0 - 3, from gape 0-68. Iris light brown, 
horny black ; feet horny blackish. 
No. 146, imm. Urumbu, Jlieluin Valley, July 24, 1873. 
No. 273, juv. Kangan, August 7, 1873. 
No. 295. Gaganghir, August 9, 1873. 
Nos. 459, 465. Kargil, August 19, 1873. 
No. 476. Shargol, August 20, 1873. 
Nos. 562, 576. Leh, August 28, 1873. 
No. 669, juv. Leh, September 10, 1873. 
As mentioned below, Dr. Henderson’s specimen from Khushtagh belongs to this sp ^ 
and therefore the one shot by Dr. Scully at the same place on the 8th of August jru * 
have been an example of this Warbler. 
152. Sylvia minuscula. 
Sylvia curruca (nec Gm.) ; Scully, Str. P. iv. p. 150 (1876). . 
Sylvia minuscula, Hume; Seebolim, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 20, pi. 1 (1881) ; C. Swinh- 1 
p. 109; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 67; Scully, J. A. S. Beng. lvi. p. 80 (1887) ; Oates, Faun- hi' 1 ’ 
Birds, i. p. 398 (1889) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. pt. 3, p. 71 (1889). 
No. 969. Karghalik, November 6, 1873. 
No. 1094. Yangihissar, December 1, 1873. 
Nos. 1680, 1682. Ighiz Yar, May 18, 1874. 
No. 1814. Karghalik, May 30, 1874. 
Nos. 1840, 1843. Kugiar, June 1, 1874. 
Nos. 1848-49. Kugiar, June 2, 1874. 
... , but liaV 
The specimens killed in winter differ little from those obtained in summer, 
rather more brown on the head, which is scarcely different in colour from the back. jp 
Dr. Stoliczka’s ‘Diary’ contains a note that this Warbler was common near Yang _ +be 
On 
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December, and on the 18th of May lie found a nest in a rose-bush near Ighiz Yar. ^ ^ eSb 
31st of May he writes : — “ JBeshtereJc. This Warbler is very common and breeding- jg in ^ 
had one, and another three fresh eggs : one had two half-incubated eggs. The ncs i U j a riy 
small bush about ten inches or a foot above the ground, composed entirely of grass, 1 L ,.“ 
cup-shaped, round, about If inch deep and If in diameter. Outside it consists 
rately coarse grass ; inside of finer grass with a little grass-seed film interwoven.’ ppd 
An examination of the specimen procured by Dr. Scully at Posgam in 0° 0 0 tlr cl 
identified by him as Sylvia curruca, proves that it is really S. minuscula. Whether jjen' 
specimens from Khushtagh and Sughuchaw were also of this species I cannot say- peibS 
derson’s specimens in the Hume Collection are also mixed up, one from Oi-t°» r 
S. minuscula, and another from Khushtagh being S. affinis. ^ 
Dr. Scully states that this Whitethroat arrives in the plains of Kashgharia abon 
and migrates southwards towards the end of October. It breeds in May and June. 
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