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Humer’s LEssER WHITE-THROAT. 
Length, 53; wing 2°3 to 2-4; bill at front, 0:3. 
Bill brownish ; irides brownish-yellow ; legs brown. 
Forehead and crown pale bluish-grey ; back, rump, and upper 
tail-coverts isabelline fawn, or pale sandy brown; chin, throat, 
and under surface, white ; second primary equal to the seventh, 
in some intermediate between seventh and eighth. 
Hume’s Lesser White-throat is a not uncommon cold weather 
visitant to Sind and parts of Guzerat and Rajputana. 
Sylvia althea, ume. 
582ter.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 162. 
THE HIMALAYAN LESSER WHITE-THROAT. 
Upper surface darkish grey, slightly tinged with brown on the 
back. 
Under surface white ; second primary intermediate in length 
between or equal to sixth and seventh, or seventh and eighth ; 
wing, 2°7 to 2°8 ; culmen, 0°51 to 0°56; tarsus, 0°75 to 0°8. 
This species, or race as it may perhaps more properly be called, 
is a somewhat rare cold weather visitant to most parts of the 
Presidency. 
Sylvia rufa, Bodd. 
582quat.—Butler, Guzerat ; (S. cinerea), Stray Feathers, Vol. ITI, 
p. 488; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind (S. cinerea) 
p. 162. 
THE GREY WARBLER OR WHITE-THROAT. 
Length, 6 to 6:25 ; expanse, 8°5; wing, 2°85 to 2°87 ; tail, 2°32 
to 3; bill at front, 0°44 ; bill from gape, 0°62. 
Bill dusky, fleshy at base below ; irides yellowish-brown ; legs 
and feet yellowish-brown. 
The entire upper surface is a moderately dark, somewhat 
reddish sooty, or reddish ashy brown, more cinereous on the head, 
and with the tertials and their greater coverts rather broadly 
margined with pale dull ferruginous ; the lores are albescent 
or greyish-white, with traces of a greyer line through them ; 
chin, upper throat, and eyelid feathers pure white; ear-coverts 
silky brown; lower throat, breast and middle of abdomen, white, 
tinged with pale vinaceous buff; sides and flanks tinged with 
brown ; first primary very minute, second primary longest, or 
second and third equal and longest; taila good deal rounded ; 
exterior feather 0°4 shorter than longest, a paler brown than the 
rest and margined with white ; next feather tipped with brownish- 
white; quills and greater coverts and tail-feathers all paler 
margined; axillaries greyish-white; tibial plumes _buffy-white ; 
tarsi stout, 0°87 in length. 
The Grey Warbler occurs during the cold season both in Sind 
and Guzerat. 
