1922.] the Birds of Slnd. 555 



viii. p. 373), while he found eggs as hite as July, and says 

 it breeds again in September, so that the nest season is a 

 long ono. Mr. Bell, who has given mo many notes on its 

 nesting, has seen it building as early as the middle o£ 

 February. He says the nests (and he has found a good many) 

 are nearly always built into a grass clump almost on the 

 ground and are well hidden ; the birds always seem to 

 select a clump which is on the edge of a small clearing 

 in the forest. The nests are untidy outside but neat enough 

 inside, and are composed of " khan " grass down with 

 fine grasses admixed with a few tamarisk twigs, and lined 

 with down, fine grass, tamarisk seeds, and sometimes a 

 feather or two of Partridge ; the female does the building. 

 The bird sits close, skulking off into thick cover on being 

 disturbed, whence it soon returns, and starts chattering at 

 the intruder. They feed mostly in the thick cover they 

 frequent, occasionally on the ground, turning over leaves and 

 searching nooks and crannies for insects, when their actions 

 resemble those of Babblers. The song of the male is very 

 loud for the size of the bird, and reminded me much of that 

 of the Hedge-Accentor ; the female has a chattering note. 



Sind birds are topotypical ; from outside Sind and Punjab 

 I have seen no specimens. 



[ChaBtornis locustelloides (Blyth). 



In December 1919, I flushed in some high "surpat'^ 

 grass in the Karachi Sewage Farm a bird which T am as 

 certain as I can be was a Bristle-faced Grass- Warbler. It 

 kept settling quite out of sight at the bottom of the grass, 

 which here was considerably higher than my head ; conse- 

 quently I had ultimately to shoot it on the wing, and 

 unfortunately never retrieved it. This is not an unlikely 

 bird to occur in the "khan" grass-jungle of Upper ISiud, 

 but to Karachi it must have been a straggler.] 



Hippolais rama (Sykes). 



Except in the desert portions of the province, Sykes' Tree- 

 Warbler is common, especially in the Indus Valley ; it is 



