does not differ in its habits from the closely-allied P. Hendersoni,[1] and its range does not extend to the north of the Tian Shan, or into Russian Turkestan.
Of fish, only two kinds are known in the Tarim as well as in Lob-nor itself; the Marœna, and another (of the carp family) strange to me.[2] Both are very numerous, especially the former, and they constitute the chief sustenance of the inhabitants.
Population is first met on descending the Tarim, at the mouth of the Ugen-daria; for administrative purposes the people are divided into two districts—the Tarimtsi or Kara-Kultsi,[3] and the Lobnortsi proper or Kara-Kurchintsi.[4] Let us say a few words concerning the former; we shall speak of the Kara-Kurchintsi later, in describing Lob-nor.
- ↑ [This bird appears to bear a closer resemblance to the chough than to any other, and Shaw said that they were good eating. See Lahore to Yarkand, p. 244.—M.]
- ↑ We have several excellent specimens of Lob-nor and Tarim fish in our collection.
- ↑ After Lake Kara-Kul, near which lives an akhoond who governs the people on the Lower Tarim.
- ↑ More correctly Kara-Koshuntsi from the word Kara-Koshun, i.e. black district or quarter.
covered, and to the basin of which river it appears exclusively to belong. [Since I began this translation, Col. Prejevalsky has informed me that the new species of Podoces mentioned in the text, has been identified as P. Biddulphii, discovered during Sir D. Forsyth's expedition to Kashgar.—M.]
