1922.] the Birds of Sind. 553 



the nearest habitat of these birds was a good three miles 

 away, and to reach their new ground they must hav(! crossed 

 a considerable (for them) stretch of unsuitable country ; this 

 circumstance shows how readily even very sedentary birds 

 wander at times. By the end of November this jheel was 

 aoain bare desert, and the birds gone again of course. 



My series measure: — c? , wing 50-54*5; tail, siimuKM-, 

 ol)'5-40; winter 41-47. This species performs a complete moult 

 in May ; the juvenile resembles the winter plumage, which is 

 not like the summer as is stated in the ' Fauna of Briti.-h 

 India ' ; it is much more streaked with ochraceous, especially 

 on the head, which in summer is pain brown. In the 

 J. B. N. H. S. xxvii. p. 482, Mr. Stuart Baker has fixed the 

 type-locality as Shillong ; this bird was described by 

 Franklin as Friuia cursitans, P. Z. S., Aug. Hth, 1831, 

 p. 118, and this paper also appeared in the J. A, S. B. i. July 

 1831, and it is there stated that Franklin's birds came from 

 between Benares and (Jalcutta, or between Benares and the 

 Vindhyan Hills, so that the type-locality must be fixed in the 

 United Provinces or Bengal. I cannot see any difference 

 between Bengal, United Provinces, Punjab, and Sind 

 specimens. 



Franklinia bnchanani (Blyth). " ( 'hiho.^' 



In the more desert portions of Sind the Rufous-fronted 

 Wren- Warbler is common, and I cannot understand how 

 Hume failed to meet with it frequently, for he regarded it as 

 uncommon. It is a bird essentially of desert scrub-jungle, 

 where euphorbias, a few camel-thorn and acacia bushes 

 make up, with tussocks of desert grass, a scanty vegetation. 

 In thicker forest or jungle, or cultivation proper, 1 never 

 saw it. I found it common throughout Lower Sind and in 

 the ravines of the lower hills, such as the Soorjana. 



Doig thought that it bred in the Narra District in April, 

 and Mr. Bell records what he thought was a nest of this 

 species with eggs on 5 April, but according to my 

 experience this bird is still in winter plumage in April and 

 performs a complete moult in May, which is completed by 



