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"[Approximate date and pinned location, deduced from the text, Przewalski’s account of the journey (in two volumes), the expedition's detailed itinerary, and Petermann’s 'route-map' of c. 1876] "I have called this species after an ornithologist, Mr. W. H. Taczanowski, of the Warsaw Museum. We met with this bird for the first time at the sources of the river Tetunga, and found it very abundantly distributed in the Koko-nor steppes and in Northern Tibet, avoiding the Tsaidam country. In its habits it reminds one of the Chats, runs about very quickly, perches on stones or small heaps, constantly bowing and vibrating its wings." (Prjevalsky [= Przewalski], 1877, p. 291) Prjevalsky [= Przewalski], N. (1877), ‘On the birds of Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the solitudes of Northern Tibet’, translated from Russian by E. Carl Craemers, in Rowley, G.D., ed. Ornithological miscellany, vol. 2, pp. 137-204, 271-320, & 379-438. Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35519712 (page 137, title page of paper). Accessed 6 September 2025.