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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
No. 940, <s . Sanju, November 1, 1873. — Length 8 inches, wing 2 - 7, tail 4 - 2, tarsus ^ 
expanse 8 - 8 ; bill from front 0 - 5, from gape 0 - 73. Iris brown ; bill horny brown, 1° 
mandible pale ; feet fleshy grey. 
No. 947. Sanju, November 1, 1873. 
Nos. 940, 958. Oi-tograk, November 4, 1873. 
Nos. 1243, 1244, 12-53. Maralbashi, January 1874. 
No. 1368. Aioksogon, February 19, 1874. 
In all these specimens the white supercilium and the black moustache are, the f° rin ,, 
almost wholly, the latter to a great extent, obsolete. The whole colouring is more ^ 
than in tbe type, and the marking of the surface wanting. Colonel Biddulph’s note 
follows: — “This species I only saw at Sanju at one place, but between Sanju and Karg u 
and again at Maralbashi it was very common. In all these localities it was found a®° B 3 
long grass.” ^ w 
Dr. Stoliczka in his ‘Diary’ remarks that on leaving Oi-tograk on the 4th of N° vcn ' ^ 
lie obtained several Suya albosuperciliaris ; they were, as usual, very difficult to shoot- ^ 
Aioksogon, on the 19th of February, this species was common among the high § 
Colonel Biddulph procured specimens at Sanju on the 1st of November, and several at 1 
bashi in January. 
Dr. Henderson writes : — “A single specimen of this remarkable bird was obtained 011 
10th of September on the Yarkand plains at Kliushtagh, an oasis in the desert, where ® 
fields of peas, barley, and wheat fringe for a breadth of a few hundred yards a small s r 
that further on loses itself in the desert. For a distance of from twelve to twenty ® l 
either direction an absolute desert of shifting sand and gravel stretches away to the 
Numerous small birds frequented these isolated fields, where the Common Swallow, t B °’ j ;l 
particularly numerous, but of the species now under consideration only a single indivi 11 
female, was procured.” 0 
“ This species,” writes Dr. Scully, “ is tolerably common in the plains of ^ 
Turkestan, where it is said to be a permanent resident. It has a sweet plaintive note, ' _ 
frequents long grass and bushes growing near rivers and streams. It breeds in May and <■ g 
some young birds were obtained about the middle of the latter month. The Turki & 
for the species is ‘ Suram.’ ” 
Family TURDIDiE. 
Subfamily SA XI COLIN jE . 
Genus PRATINCOLA. 
168. Pratincola caprata. ^ ^ . 
Pratincola caprata (L.) ; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 106; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv. p- 195 (lS'-’l 
id. Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 70 (1889) ; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 59 (1899) • 
No. 141, $ ad. Hatti, July 21, 1873. 
169. Pratincola matjra. 
Pratincola rubicola (nec Linn.) ; Hume& Renders. Lahore to Yark. p. 204 (1873). 0‘, 
Pratincola indica, Blyth; Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 185 (1877) ; Bidd. Ibis, 188b P" 
