562 Dr. C. B. Ticehurst on [Ibis, 



not a bird of scrub-jungle, being replaced there by mhnda, 

 and does not care for low bushes. I have nearly always 

 found it searching for insects pretty high up in trees in a 

 Phylloscopine way, and it is an adept at concealment. It 

 arrives in fjower Sind about the third week in September 

 and soon becomes common ; it leaves again early in April ; 

 the last was seen on the 14:th. Its call note reminded me of 

 that of the Blue Tit. 



y males measure : wing 64-70 ; tail 56-62 ; bill at base 

 12-13'5 mm. 



5 females measure : wing 61'5-67 ; tail 55-61 ; bill at 

 base 11-11) mm. 



The second primary is constantly between the sixth and 

 seventh in length. Sjn-ing moult takes place in February 

 and March, and involves the bodj'-feathers, inner two or 

 three secondaries and their coverts, some median and lesser 

 coverts, and the central pair of tail-feathers ; sometimes the 

 two central pairs of tail-feathers or the outer pair are also 

 moulted, and in one specimen practically the whole wing, 

 including nearly all the flight-feathers, had l)een renewed. 



Sylvia curruca minula Hume. 



Hume's Lesser Whitethroat is not uncommon throughout 

 Sind, but affects, as also noted by Brooks, quite different 

 country from that in which apinis is so common — that is, 

 almost desert country, where a few stunted, bare bushes 

 of acacia, camel-thorn, etc., mixed with the more frequent 

 euphorbias, comprise a sort of scanty scrub-jungle ; out of 

 this type of country I never met with it, though this sort oE 

 habitat may border on cultivation. 



The earliest I have seen it is 13 October, and it appears to 

 depart in March. This bird moults in February and March 

 its body plumage, central tail-feathers, inner secondaries and 

 their coverts, but the new dress does not differ from that of 

 fresh autumn. The wing formula is very constant, 2 is 

 between 7 and 8, occasionally equal to 7 or 8. A large series 

 give the following measurements : — (^ , wing 60-64 : tail 

 53-56 ; bill 11-12 mm. ? as c? . 



