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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
“ Next clay I saw tliree of these birds in waste ground, where a few stunted bushes wer 
growing ; they appeared to be yellowish brown above, the breast dove-colour, abdomen ( 1 
or black, lower tail-coverts white. Another of these birds was seen on a subsequent occasion 
in the desert, but this Sand-Grouse (as I believe it to be) was always so wild and wary, 
I could not manage to get within shot of it.” 
275. Syrrhaptes paradoxus. 
Syrrhaptes paradoxus, Pall.; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 68 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 8,23; . 
in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 382 (1877); Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, P- 
Zarudn. Ois. Trauscasp. p. 62 (1885). 
No. 1699. East of Kizil, May 19, 1874. 
A female bird, which Mr. Ogilvie Grant thinks to be not quite mature. 
This may be the species seen by Dr. Scully near Besharik in August, which is ca 
“ Beghitale ,” as has been suggested by Mr. Hume in a footnote to ‘Stray Eeatliers, 10 ' 
p. 139. 
Order GALLING. 
Eamily PHASIANIDiE. 
Genus PHASIANUS. 
276. Phasianus shawi. 
Phasianus shawi, Elliot ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 179 (1876). 
Nos. 948, 949, d $ . Guma, November 3, 1873. 
No. 1071, <3 . Yarkand, November 24, 1873. 
No. 1198, d . Maralbashi, January 1874. Sent by the King. ^ 
Colonel Biddulph writes to us : — “ This species frequents thick grass-jungle, and, acC ° il0 
ing to the natives, never roosts in trees, and I certainly , saw it in places where there waS , 
tree to roost in. We first met with it ourselves at a place about 15 miles east of J- a1 ’ 
We did not notice it anywhere en route to Yarkand, but at Oi-tograk specimens 0 
flesh) were brought in, said to have been killed near Guma, which is on the road to v 
On the first march out of Yarkand to Kashghar we again shot specimens ; after that " e ^ 
it on the road from Kashghar to Maralbashi, at about 60 miles from the former pla^ e ’ ^ 
thence on to Maralbashi. A few were in the jungle, but only where there were nu 
long grass. At Maralbashi, where there is a vast expanse of grass, it was very c0ja 
They were, however, very wild and shy, and ran like fiends, only rising at const gg) 
distances as a rule, and as, besides this, it was almost impossible to retrieve them in hhc ^ 
unless killed dead, I do not think I shot and bagged more than three in any one day 5 
used to hawk them with what the people called * Katchgais,’ a Goshawk, I think. 
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“ As far as I could make out it occurs as far north, at any rate, as Aksu, g en ° S, 
over the nearly level, grass-jungle-clad basins of the Khotan, Yarkand, and Kashghar 
east of the road from Sanju to Kashghar. West of this we never met with it.” 
