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 does not differ in its habits from the closely-allied P. Hendersoni, 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. 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, and the Lobnortsi proper or Kara-Kurchintsi. Let us say a few words concerning the former; we shall speak of the Kara-Kurchintsi later, in describing Lob-nor.