544 Dr. C. B. Ticehurst cm [Ibis, 



on the look out for this Babbl(M-, which, I believe^ is an 

 inhabitant of thick "khan'' jungle, but I never came 

 across it. It is probably very local and very skulking, and 

 so easily missed. Moreover, in some years, at all events, 

 this high grass-jungle is much cut and at times burnt, and 

 so, unless one is resident in Upper Sind, the location of 

 a suitable jungle is difficult. The single specimen seems 

 distinct enough from the typical race. 



Hypocolius ampelinus Bp. 



Tiie only record of the Grey Hypocolius from Sind and 

 India is that of Blanford, who, when encamped at Mazarani 

 Nai, due west of Larkhana, on G March, 1875, had a speci- 

 men brought in by his collector. It was obtained on a 

 stony hillside amongst the lower hills of Khirthar. This 

 bird must indeed have been a straggler, its nearest known 

 habitat being Bushiie and the head of the Persian Gulf. 



yEgitldna nit/rolutea, which is common in Cutch, may well 

 occur in extreme south-east Sind. 



Pycnonotus leucotis leucotis (Gould). " Bulbul." 

 The White-eared Bulbul is a common and constant resident 

 throughout Sind wdierever there are gardens, cultivation, or 

 trees, being equally numerous in gardens in towns as away 

 out in the thicker jungle ; in fact, it is only absent in quite 

 bare tracts or mean scrub. It even occurs in the lower hills 

 and euphorbia-jungle, unattractive though they seem. Its 

 cheery note is one of the very few songs which enliven an 

 otherwise songless land, and for this reason it is a general 

 favourite and one of the few birds everyone knows. It is 

 usually met with in pairs or perhaps family parties, but I once 

 saw a scattered flock of about fifty individuals in a line of 

 tamarisk at Lhandhi, near Karachi, attracted there by an 

 abundance of a species of beetle. It occurs out to the 

 Beluchi frontier. 



In Hume's ' Nests and Eggs ' it is stated that this Bulbul 

 breeds in most places in July and August, but somewhat 

 earlier in Sind. This is quite misleading, as I have seen eggs 



