552 Dr. C. B. Ticehin-st on [lias, 



mile from land, the Moustached Sedge-Warbler was simply 

 swarming. When shooting Ducks on this lake, we took with 

 us some tamarisk boughs to stick up in the reeds to supple- 

 ment their scanty cover ; and on more than one occasion, as 

 I was standing quietly in my " blind,'' one or more of these 

 little Warblers, which were in numbers busily employed in 

 the reeds a few yards from me, would hop up into the 

 the tamarisk boughs to investigate within a few inches of me, 

 keeping up all the while their curious scolding clucking. 



I have no knowledge of their breeding in Sind, though 

 some are said to do so near Quetta ; however, no one has 

 visited these dhunds in hot weather. 



All mv birds are typical miniica. Two birds of the year 

 were still moulting their wings and body plumage on 

 4 November. Early in February the spring body-moult 

 begins. Legs olive-brown, bill brown, horn-flesh at the base 

 of lower mandible. 



Three maleSj wing (30-64 ; nine females, 60-G3 mm. 



Cisticola uncidis cursitans (Frank.). 



The Fan-tailed Warbler is fairly common in Lower Sind 

 wherever there are thick crops, such as cereals, lucerne, 

 tall grass, and rushes round the drying edges of swamps 

 and jheels. It appears to be less common in Central and 

 Upper Sind ; it is a resident. The breeding season is a very 

 long one ; Mr. Bell records it breeding in Upper Sind in 

 February ; at Karachi, where I saw a good deal of it, I 

 ascertained that it bred continuously from early April up to 

 the end of October, on the 25th of which month I found a 

 nest of young quilling. The stronghold of this species at 

 Karachi is the coarse grass, grown in the Sewage Farm ; it 

 was curious to see how these birds will find out a new 

 breeding place. On the east side of Karachi there is a 

 depression out in the desert which, after rain, fills up and 

 quickly becomes full of rushes and sedges ; this spot in mid- 

 August 1919 was bare desert (and had been so nearly two 

 years) ; it filled on 26 August, and as soon as enough cover 

 grew up, several pairs of Cisticola turned up and bred ; now, 



