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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Genus GALLINAGO. 
339. Gallinago scolopacinus. 
Gallinayo scolopacinus, Bp. ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 186 (1876) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p- _ j f p 
Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. iii. p. 90 (1878) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 95 ; Scully, ibid, p- 5 ’ 
J. A. S. Beng. lvi. p. 87 (1887) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. pt. 3, p. 89 (1889). 
Scolopax gal.linago (L.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 69; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 330; Zaru n 
Transcasp. p. 70 (1885). 
No. 603. Leli, August 31, 1873. ^ 
“ The Common Snipe,” says Dr. Scully, “ was tolerably numerous in the neighbourhoo^ 
Yarkand in summer, where it was ascertained to breed ; the bird was never observed iu 
It was found in the neighbourhood of marshy ground and inundated fields. The Tuiki 
for the Snipe is ‘ Mahramchi ,’ ‘ the solitary one.’ ” 
340. Gallinago stenttra. 
Gallinayo sthenura (Bp.) ; Hume & Marsh. Game Birds Ind. iii. p. 339, pi. (1880). 
Scolopax stenura, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 477 (1887). 
No. 606. Leh, August 31, 1873. 
No. 741. East of Tanksi, September 18, 1873. 
341. Gallinago solitaria. , 
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Gallinayo solitaria (Hodgs.) ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p.286 (1873); Prjev. 1 pri. 
Orn. Misc. iii. p. 91 (1878) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 95 ; Scully, t. c. p. 588; id. J. A. S. e 
p. 87 (1887). 
No. 709. Tanksi, September 9, 1873. 
Nos. 923, 924. Sanju, November 1, 1873. 
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Colonel Biddulpli writes : — “ I shot one on the south side of the Sakti Pass, neai 
and we shot several along the stream in the narrow valley (13,500 feet) leading f 1 0111 
to the Pangong Lake. I also saw one between Sarhad and Panjah in Wakhan.’ 
