18 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1890. 



I have also received eggs taken by a friend close to Karachi. 

 The eggs are broad oval in shape, averaging 0*615 inches in length 

 by 0*495 in breadth. 



Eastern Narra, Bind, March to July. S. B. Bmg. 



Chaman, South Afghanistan, May. H. E. Barnes. 



5835is.— THE DESERT WARBLER. 

 Sylvia nana, Hemp, and Ehr. 

 This bird occurs in the Sind deserts and also in the Runn of ditch, 

 Mr. Doig found young birds just able to fly at the latter place. 

 This is all I can find on record regarding this bird, which person- 

 ally I have never met with. 



Runn of ditch, loth Nov. (young only). S. B, Boig. 



589.— THE PIED WAGTAIL. 

 Motacilla maderaspatensis, Gm. 



The Pied Wagtail is very generally distributed throughout the 

 Presidency ; it is a permanent resident, breeding nearly the whole 

 y ear through. 



They have several broods during the season. 



One pair, that frequented a small tank adjoining my compound at 

 Poona, had a nest with two young ones and an addled egg on the 

 3rd March ; on the 23rd April I took three incubated eggs from the 

 same nest ; they made another nest about a yard away from the first 

 one, which contained two eggs on the 9th May. In July I noticed 

 them feeding a pair of young birds, and towards the end of August, 

 they were making preparations for another brood ; so that this pair 

 had at least five clutches of eggs in one year. They were the only 

 Wagtails on the tank and were very pugnacious, and would allow no 

 other bird to remain on the tank ; their own young ones, as soon as 

 they were able to forage for themselves, were even driven away. 



The nest, which is a mere pad, composed of grass, sedges, fibres, 

 &.c, is always near water, and is built upon something solid, such as 

 the ledge of a rock, a niche in a stone bridge or wall, a hole in a 

 bunk or well, or any such similar place. 



The eggs, three or four in number, vary much both in size and 

 phapo, bul arc always more or less pointed at one end. The general 



