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APPENDIX.

Hoopoe (Upupa epops), winters, only met with at Chargalyk.

Woodpeckers (Picus sp.), habitant, very common.

Sand-grouse (Syrrhaptes paradoxus) rare, habitant.

Turtle-dove (Twrtw vitticollis[1], T. sp.), only met with at Chargalyk.

Harelda glacialis.
rare, only single specimens seen in November.
Anas ehjpeata,
Cormorant (Carbo earmoranus),
Brown-headed Gull (Larus brunneicephalus),
Common bittern (Botaurus stellaris)
said to winter in small numbers among the reedy unfrozen parts of Lob-nor.
Swan (Cygnus olor?)
  1. [Called in Kashmir Kookail. — M.][N.B. — Many of the birds here mentioned will be found described and some figured in "Lahore to Yarkand," by Henderson and Hume, and in Blanford's "Ornithological Notes to Eastern Persia."— M.]