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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] Przewalski noted that this was a taxon new to science. "I have named the present species after our well known ornithologist N. A. Severtzoff. We found it only in the Kan-su [now Qinghai] mountains, in the lower and middle mountain-ranges — that is, up to an elevation of 10,000 feet above the level of the sea. It inhabits the larch and fir forests, and seems to be particularly fond of small clefts through which brooks are running, and the sides of which are covered with thick bushes. In its habits and voice it resembles its European relation. I only once succeeded in finding its young, in August; and at that time they were very little smaller than their parents. On our approach they left the ground and settled on the trees, when the female bird at once commenced to call, something like 'mit, mit, mit'." (Prjevalsky [= Przewalski], 1877, p. 430-432) 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 12 September 2025.