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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Order LIMICOLiE. 
Eamily PAE/RIDAI 
Genus HYDROPH ASI ANUS. 
314. Hydroptiasianus chirurgus. 
Ilydrophasianus sinensis (Gm.) ; Hume & Headers. Lahore to Yark. p. 290 (1873). 
Nos. 171-174, 176. Wular Lake, Kashmir, July 26, 1873. 2; 
No. 262, <j . Srinagar, August 3, 1873. — Length 21 inches, wing 9 1, tail 10'45, tarS ^ reeI1 
expanse 28. Iris dark brown ; beak bluish ; feet pale bluish, with a slight 0 
tinge, claws horny. 
Dr. Stoliczka records in his ‘ Diary ’ that on the 26th of August he shot a number 
species, and found the eggs. The nest is only a few water-reeds put together at the s 
of the water, and the thing can scarcely he called a nest. There were three eggs. 
derson states that it was very abundant near Banihal. 
Eamily CHARADRIIDiE. 
Genus CHARADRIUS. 
315. Charadrius fulvus. 
Charadrius longipes, Temm. ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 284 (1873) ; Prjev. in Rowley 
Misc. ii. p. 434 (1877) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 94; Scully, t. c. p. 586. 
Not a single specimen of the Asiatic Golden Plover is in the collection, but Li .^ elJg 
derson found it very abundant in the vicinity of Yarkand in August, when the s P eC1 
still retained some of the breeding-plumage. 
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Hen- 
Genus SQUATAROLA. 
316. Squatarola Helvetica. 
Squat arola Helvetica (Gm.) ; Scully, Str 
.. o 78 0 » l6) ’ 
P. iv. p. 184 (1876); Blanf. East. Persia, u. P- 6 
Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 327. 
Charadrius squatarola, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 69 (1873). 
Dr. Scully says : — “ Two specimens of the Grey Plover were shot near running^^y 
between the Eort and City of Kashghar in November. It was never noticed in 
at any other time, and I have no information about it. In common with se’v 61 
Plovers it is called in Turki ‘ Chullok .’ ” 
