1922.] the Birds of Sind. 539 



Remiz coronatus (Severtz.), 



Mr. T. K. Bell int'oniis nie that he met with this I'emluline 

 Tit in the dense well-watered tamarisk- and acacia jungle o£ 

 Andaldal close to Kuk Junction in February 1904, and again 

 at Kaoti about the same time. He remarks that he saw 

 several small parties hunting for insects among the leaves of 

 the tamarisk, hanging and clinging to which they seem as 

 much at home as other birds do on twigs and branches ; the 

 note is a low, short " tweet." One of his specimens is in the 

 British Museum. 



This is the first and only record for Sind ; this Tit was 

 first found in India at Kohat by Whitehead in 1905, and 

 Mr, Whistler saw it at Jhelum in 1914. It evidently 

 wanders occasionally, perhaps regularly, into parts of 

 north-west India. The Grey Tit, common in Lower Punjab, 

 is not recorded in Sind, nor is Parus nuchalis, which occurs 

 in Cutch. 



Argya earlii (Blyth). " Lelo." 



Throughout the canal areas of the Indus valley the Striated 

 Babbler is common in damp or wet places where " khan " and 

 "kaudi" jungle or tamarisk afford thick cover ; as soon as 

 one enters such habitats from desert, scrub-jungle, or culti- 

 vation, this species takes the place completely of .1. caiulata. 

 Always found in small parties, this species is more noisy but 

 more skulking than its desert ally, and is less often seen on 

 the ground, though, according to Mr. Bell, it must seek its 

 food largely on the ground in dense cover, as he found its 

 food to consist of small snails and Melolonthid larvae. Its note 

 is distinctive and much louder than that of caudata, and 

 attracts attention when, in the last of the gloaming, one after 

 another, the individuals of a flock seek the thick tamarisks to 

 roost in. Tlie nesting season is given as from March to 

 October by Doig and Barnes. 



This species does not occur west of Jhangshahi ( 70 miles 

 east of Karachi) . 



Examples from Sind and Punjab arc quite inseparable 



