1922.] Birds of JhcoK/ District. 291 



but a few birds are to be observed thronghont April. Its 

 numbers, however, vary a good deal in different years : 

 during the winter of 1917-1918 the species was most common ; 

 it was less so during the winter of 1918-1919, while in the 

 winter of 1919-1920 it was distinctly scarce until a number 

 came in with a coltl snap early in February. 



The loud " (liiffchaff" song is uttered freely by the 

 passage migrants in March, and I have heard it also on one 

 occasion in autumn on 10 October. 



Phylloscopus neglectus neglectus Hume. (16 skins.) 



During the winter of 1917-1918 I probably overlooked 

 this species, as the only record is of a specimen obtained by 

 Ticehurst at Kadirpur on 27 December. 



Next winter, 1918-1919, I found it common in a Kikur 

 grove at Kadirpur from 13 to 17 November when I was on 

 tour at tliat place. A single female was shot in some bushes 

 beside the railway line at Jh.ing on 21 March. In 1".'20 I 

 shot a male, in the same place as the last specimen, on 

 13 January, and another male in my garden in some under- 

 growth on 15 January-. Then in tlse course of a tour on the 

 right bank of tlie Olienab, from Sliali Jiwana to Kadirpur 

 via Kot Sultan and Kariwala, I found the species very 

 common between 1 and 28 January. Nearly all were seen 

 in Kikurs on the canal-ljanks, often several in companv. It 

 is worth remarking that during this same tour I found 

 Pliixmcurits erytJironotus unusually common on the same 

 ground, where it had not been met in other winters ; so it is 

 possible that this was al-o an unusual irruption of these 

 Warblers. The call-note is veiy distincti\e ; it is a harsh, 

 rather grating single note, " chit," not unlike that of a 

 Whitethroat and v(uy different to the call of most other 

 members of the genus. It is, of course, a winter visitor onlv. 



Phylloscopus nitidus nitidus Blyth. {8 skins.) 



A spring and autumn passage migrant in fair numbers. 



On the si)ring migration it first arrives in the latter lialf of 



March, and may be met with throughout Ajril (hitest date 



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