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SECOND YABKAND MISSION. 
Dr. Stoliczka states in his ‘ Diary ’ that this species was not uncommon at Sarikol, an 
apparently bred in the neighbourhood. Colonel Biddulph states that he met with this speci® 5 
at Tashkurghan on the 8th of May. Dr. Henderson writes : — “ This species was first met nj ^ 
on the 19tli of July at the hot springs above Gokra, at an elevation of 16,000 feet. A e 
were seen on the Salt Plain on the 29tli of July, and after that the birds were found in P a . ^ 
all along the Karakash Diver. They were not very numerous, hut a certain number of P a ^ 
were met with each day. Not a single bird was seen on the return journey in September a^ 
the early part of October. Gokra was reached on the 5th of that month, so that ere this ^ 
young birds must have been sufficiently advanced to leave along with the parents f 01 
distant Indian coasts.” 
Yark 
in 
Genus VANELLUS. 
320. Vanellus cbjstatus. 
Vanellus cristatus (Meyer) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 69 (1873) ; Hume & Henders. Lalioic to 
p. 286 (1873) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 186 (1876) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 280 (1876) ; ^3® ‘ 
Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 4*33 (1877) ; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 68 (1885) ; Scully, J. A- 
lvi. p. 87 (1887) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. pt. 3, p. 88 (1889). 
Vanellus vulgaris, Bechst. ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 328; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 94; Scully, ibid, p- 0 
Nos. 991, 1042. Yarkand, November 10-27, 1873. 
Nos. 1129, 1130. Kaslighar, December 10, 1873. 
No. 1223. Kaslighar, January 22, 1874. 
No. 1778. Yarkand, May 24, 1874. ^ 
Colonel Biddulph writes ; — “ Not very common. I shot single birds at Sanj u 1 
Kashghar, and saw others, but never in flocks, whilst travelling about the plains countiy- 
did not notice them in the hills.” 0 £ 
Dr. Henderson obtained specimens in the plains between Karghalik and the c ^ 0 nt 
Yarkand. He says that they seemed to be very abundant in'" all marshy places throtu 
the plains of Yarkand. iVTArcb 
“ The Lapwing,” writes Dr. Scully, “ was exceedingly common in the plains from ' 
to December, but was not observed in January or February. It frequented marshy S ^ 
and the vicinity of streams, generally in flocks. It breeds in April and May ; and I n ° 0 f 
in the beginning of June that these birds often circled round and round over one l n< ^ ar ]-j 
grass, uttering their plaintive cry and evidently solicitous about their young. 
name for the Peewit is ‘ Cheman * (i. e. { Chaman,’ Persian, * walking haughtily ’)• . , 0 p 
Near Yarkand Dr. Stoliczka found the Lapwing breeding, and procured young 131 
the 27th of May, which were fully a week old. 
321. Chetttjsia gkegaria. 
Genus CHETTUSIA. 
Vanellus gr eg arius, Pall. ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 69 (1873). 
Chettusia gregaria, Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 328; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 95; Scully, t. c. p- 
Ois. Transcasp. p. 68 (1885). 
No. 1457. Panjali, April 13, 1874. 
58 7; 
Zai’ ucln ' 
“ Saw four of them.” 
