294 Mr. H. Whistler on the [Ibis, 



usually in the early jiart of May. They return towards the 

 end of July and are abundant in August and September. 



Mr. B. H. Bird, I.C'.S , kindly sent me a clutch of 4 eggs 

 of H, rama with the nest and skin of the parent bird, which 

 he took at CUiak Lerwa on the Indus on 14 April, 1918, in 

 the neiohbourino- district of Mianwali. From his account 

 it appears that the species breeds fairly commonly in that 

 neighbourhood in April. 



According to Major Lindsay Smith (Jour. Bombay N. H. 

 Soc. xxiii. p. 'd&&), II. rama also breeds commonly in the 

 riverain jungles of the Chenab at Multan, just below Jhang ; 

 he does not specify the month, but states that, after breeding, 

 the birds a})pear in May for a short time in cantonments 

 and then disappear ; from which I assume that there, as at 

 Mianwali, the breeding month is April. 



From these two records it is highly probable that i/. rama 

 also breeds in the riverain of Jhang District, but I have no 

 record to that effect. In any case, the situation as regards 

 its breeding and migration appears somewhat puzzling at 

 present. It is possible that the migrant and breeding birds 

 are not the same individuals. 



Sylvia hortensis crassirostris Cretzsch. (5 skins.) 



The occurrence of the Eastern Orphean Warbler was 

 somewhat irregular in the two and a half years that I was at 

 Jhang, and was doubtless dependent on climatic conditions. 

 In the first winter (1917-1918), following the abnormally 

 heavy rains, it was comparatively abundant : that is to say, 

 I observed fourteen individuals in the period between 

 4 November and 28 March, some occurring each month. 

 The rains of 1918 were a practical failure, and no Orphean 

 Warbler was observed that winter, although a single passage 

 bird was seen at Kandiwal on 14 August. The species was 

 next observed on the autumn passage of 1919, when some 

 ten or eleven individuals were observed between 11 August 

 and 10 September. A single bird seen at Mochiwala on 

 26 and 27 December and another at Kadirpur on 25 January 

 complete the total for the cold weather of 1919-1920. 



