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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Order PLATALEiE. 
Eamily IBIDIDiE. 
Genus PLEGADIS. 
282. Plegadis ealcinelltts. ^ agt 
Ibis falcinellus (L.) ; Severtz. Turlcest. Jevotn. p. 68 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 326, 
Persia, ii. p. 298 (1876) . 
Falcinellus irjneus, C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 123. 
Plegadis falcinellus, Oates in Hume’s Nests and Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 231 (1890). 
No. 1581. Panjah, April 14-23, 1874. 
Order HEROD IONES. 
Eamily ARDEIDiE. 
Genus ARDEA. 
283. Ardea cinerea. 
335 i 
Ardea cinerea, L. ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 295 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1 ' ^ jggl, 
Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 196 (1876) ; Prjev. in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. iii. p. 48 (1878) ; Bid • ^ Qis. 
p. 99; Scully, ibid. p. 591 ; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 123; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. > ar 
Transcasp. p. 71 (1885) ; Radde, Ornis, iii. p. 497 (1887). 
Ardea cinerea, var. brag, Isid. Geoffr.; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 68 (1873). 
No. 177. Wular Lake, Kashmir, July 26, 1873.—“ Brag.” ^ ^g 
Colonel Biddulpli procured a specimen at Baramula. He writes to us :— “ 1 
species between Sauju and Yarkand and in the swamps round the latter place.” Dr- 
found it breeding on a jheel near Yarkand on the 22nd of May. . ^ ther e * s a 
Dr. Henderson says that this species was very common about Srinagar, where 
large heronry. , y ar kand 111 
“Eour specimens of this species,” writes Dr. Scully, “were preserved at the 
January and Eehruary. This Heron was common about Kashghar and Yarkand ^ Ava tcr- 
whole winter, frequenting swampy ground and the neighbourhood of unfrozen bi of tU® 9 ® 
It was not seen near Yarkand from April to August ; but in the latter month nuntu Aga in, 
birds were met with at Tungtash near Karghalik, among reeds growing near v ^ j- a sh 1^' 
on the 26th of August a flock of these birds (? migrating) was seen near the Kara ^nttf’ 
below Gulgun Shah. The Yarkandis say that this bird is a permanent resident m ^ tlia t d 
moving northwards in summer to the country about Maralbashi, where it breec ’ ” 
feeds chiefly on frogs and fish. The Turki name for the species is ‘ Wear ’ or * u 
