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tho cold weather I have usnnlly found it creepino- about 

 in " ba))ools "' or leafless caper, feeding in a Phylloscopine 

 fashion, and, like f'/i. trisfis, it often flies out from the 

 extremity of a bough to take insects on the wing. 



I am unable to recognize H. ohsoleta Severtz., which Gates 

 admitted to the ' Fauna ' on the ground that a bird was ob- 

 tained in Sind (according to Seebohm). I have examined a 

 large series of rania, and none of the distinctions given in the 

 ' Kauna ' betv^^een this and ohsoleta hold good ; some of my 

 specimens should thus be ohsoleta on one charact(M- and rcima 

 on the other two or nee versa, and the coloration of the 

 upper parts varies also individually and very much according 

 to wear. 



Nor can I admit that //. pallida has any ])lace in the Sind 

 or Indian Fauna. Hume at first recorded that he liad 

 received this bird from Sehwan, but later (S. F. ix. p. 232) 

 thought he was mistaken. There are two sjiecimens from 

 Sehwan in the British Museum, and both are rama ; nor are 

 there any specimens of pallida, there from Sind or India. 

 Dresser says he had seen a bird from Sind, and Barnes, 

 copying Murray (who obviously did not know tho Warblers), 

 called it a winter visitor. 



I have boen unable to trace this species (as H. pallida 

 ehrica) farther east than Bampur in Persian Beluchistan, 

 where Blanford obtained it in April, all other specimens 

 purporting to be this species from farther east which I have 

 seen, being in fact //. rama, which itself exteiids westward 

 at least as far as Shiraz. 



17 males, Sind and Punjab, measure : wing Gl*5-()5 ; tail 

 54-57 mm. 



5 females, Sind and Punjab, measure : wing G0-G2 ; tail 

 52-57 mm. 



Wing formula 2 = J or §, very rarely !i ; sixtli primarv 

 emarginate. 



In eheira : wing (male) 65-68 mm. ; 2 = 1? ; sixth |)rimarv 

 not, or only very slightly, emarginate. 



In rama the first primarv falls short of wing-tip by 27*5- 

 34"5 mm. ; thci second primary falls short of wing-ti]i by 



