1922.] the Birds oj Sind. 541 



[Argya malcomi (Sykes). 



Like several other birds — Caprimidgus asiatieus, Grmicahis 

 macei, etc. — this Babbler is only recorded from Sehwan and 

 only bv Murray, and I would omit it altogether were it not 

 that in the Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. Journal there is men- 

 tioned one also from Selnvan presented to the Society by 

 Swinhoe. It seems hardly credible that an isolated "colony " 

 exists at Sehwan, which locality does not offer any marked 

 contrast in terrain to many other places in the Indus and 

 canal areas (where no one else has met with it), and which is 

 separated by the breadth of 8ind and miles of desert from its 

 nearest known habitat. Murray's bird is still in the Karachi 

 Museum and labelled " Sehwan," but his labels were not 

 always correct. I leave the problem for future investi- 

 gators.] 



Turdoides terricolor sindianus (Ticeh.). " Satbhai." 

 The Jungle-Babbler is very common throughout Sind 

 wherever sufficient trees are found ; in some of the forests 

 along the Indus it swarms, and elsewhere it is found in pro- 

 portion to the number of trees ; in scrub-Jungle I never met 

 with it. It is a resident, of course, and starts breeding at the 

 end of March ; Mr. Bell records four fresh eggs on the 31st, 

 and he says that high up in a leafy " babool " is a favourite 

 site, and he also noted a nest in a pollarded bough of poplar 

 twelve feet from the ground. I have found young on the 

 wing by the end of April, noted birds sitting on 30 June, and 

 found fresh eggs on 5 July, so that the breeding season is a 

 long one and more than one brood is reared. Such nests as 

 I have seen were always a fair height from the ground and 

 as often as not towards the end o( a horizontal bough of 

 "babool,^' or else high up in thick milky euphorbia hedges 

 (^E. tiri'caUi) ; all were similar in structure — rather loose- 

 made deepish cups^ composed of coarse grass and lined with 

 rootlets. 



In the Bull. B. 0. C. xl. 1920, p. 156, I separated the 

 Sind bird by its general paler coloration ; it extends to 



