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area. As it is, the district worked by Reid is more than 

 I can manage, and, for the present, all my notes are restricted 

 to those parts of Oudh the avifauna of which he described 

 years ago in ' Stray Feathers.' 



Franklinia gracilis (Oates). Franklin's Wren- Warbler. 



I came across this pretty little bird this year for the first 

 time. Its discovery is really due to Mr. Benjamin Aitken, 

 for we were searching for nests in some babool-jungle on 

 May 7th, when he called my attention to the peculiar note 

 of a small Warbler, and advised me to shoot the bird to 

 make sure of the species. As the pair we observed were very 

 restless, flitting rapidly from tree to tree, it was some time 

 before I could secure one of them, which was somewhat 

 damaged by the shot. I found it to be a typical specimen 

 of F. gracilis. It was impossible to determine the sex, so 

 evidently the birds were not preparing to breed. Possibly 

 this small species is commoner than it appears to be, and is 

 overlooked. It cannot, however, be very numerous, as neither 

 I nor the late Mr. George Reid had previously met with it. 



Sylvia jerdoni (Blyth). Eastern Orphean Warbler. 



I obtained a specimen of this species (probably a male) 

 during the winter of 1897. It was feeding on the insects 

 in a babool-tree at the time. Unluckily it was very badly 

 damaged by the shot, and I could only determine the sex 

 approximately by the coloration. Reid does not mention the 

 bird, and I have never seen nor heard of it since. It cannot 

 therefore, I think, be common. 



Sturnus PURPURAscENS (Gould) . Gould's Starling. 



In a letter, dated August 9th, 1900, Reid w^rote to me : — 

 "You should note the occurrence of Sturnus pur2}urascens at 

 Lucknow : Sharpe, of the British Museum, found a specimen 

 among some ' Starlings ' that I sent liim years ago. These 

 are all, I think, included in the Catalogue of the Birds in 

 the British Museum ." 



MoTACiLLA ciTREOLoiDES (Sharpc). Hodgsou's Yellow 

 Wagtail. 



I shot a single male specimen with very pronounced black 



