548 Dr. C. B. Ticehurst on [This, 



Most Passerine passage miorants have fully moulted ere 

 they leave Sind, but this bird is au exception, as several 

 adults 1 olitained, though not in moult, had only partially 

 moulted ; one had moulted its body- and tail-feathers but not 

 its wings, another had only moulted part of its body-feathers. 

 Two birds of the year have not moulted their juvenile tail- 

 feathers. 



Zarudny has described (J. f. 0. 1911, p. 238) a race of 

 this bird as vranlca (Zagros Mts. and Beluchistan). As there 

 are apparently no specimens in England from the Caucasus, 

 the type-locality of fumiliaris, I am unable to determine 

 whether Sind and Beluchistan birds differ in any way from 

 typical specimens. 



My series measure :—(? . Wing 84-89-5, tail G4-67, bill 

 18-18-5. ? . Wing 85-86-5, tail 63-65-5, bill 17-75-19-5. 



The second primary is equal to the fourth or fifth, l)etween 

 these, or between the fifth and sixth. 



Locustella naevia straminea Seeb. 



1 only met with the Turkestan Grasshopper- AVarbler on 

 the Manchar Lake ; on 10 March, 1919, and again in 

 exactly the same spot on 27 December, 1919, I flushed two 

 or three out of dense sedge and rush on damp ground on 

 an island, and secured one on each occasion. They are 

 exceedingly skulking birds and are not flushed till nearly 

 trodden on, and after flying a short way dive into the thick 

 cover and run with great rapidity. On the wing they look 

 very pale and grey. 



This Warbler, which has not been recorded in Sind before, 

 was not unexpected, as it has occurred sporadically all over 

 the plains of India ; it is probably a winter visitor. The 

 March bird was performing a body moult. 



Two males : wing 60, 61 ; tail 58-59. 2nd primary is 

 between 4 and 5 or = 5. 



Acrocephalus stentoreus brunnescens (Jerd.). 

 In the more watery })arts of Sind the Eastern Clamorous 

 Keed- Warbler is verv common ; evervwhere on the inland 



