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c?,57-5^G4-5; ?, 53-57 mm.: tail : c? ,47-55; ?, 46-55 mm. 

 Also the \\\ng formula is slightly difierent — the secoud 

 primary is equal to the ninth or tenth or is between these 

 two, occasionally between tlie eighth and ninth. Brooks laid 

 stress on the shape and length of the first primary ; this 

 varies in both sindianus and tristh, but in .^iiuUanus on the 

 average it is longer, it exceeds the primary-coverts by 

 S'5-10"5 mm. (in tristis 6-9 mm.). In this and the wing 

 formula, and somewhat in the coloration, this bird resembles 

 net/lectas, but it is altogether longer in wing and tail, the 

 measurements not overlapping. 



Phylloscopus neglectus neglectus Hume. 



Hume found the Plain Willow-Wren ^" not uncommon 

 along the banks of the Indus and throughout Up]ier Sind 

 wherever thick clumps of " babool ' (^Icacici) arc met with.*' 

 He found it a very silent and skulking little bird. Brooks, 

 a few years later, also found it not uncommon at iSukkur 

 in tamarisk-jungle by the river, and met with it again in 

 '•babool" jungle at Sehwan ; he thought that its notes and 

 actions were more like those of the Indian Lesser AVhite- 

 tliroat {S_)/lvia c.a/fiiiis) than Phylloscopine. Mr. Bell found 

 this Willow- Wren ''everywhere'"' in central >Siud, chiefly in 

 tamarisk-jungle, and he says it has two notes — an ordinary 

 feeding call note '' twissa-twissa/' uttered quickly at intervals, 

 and an alarm note '" tshak-tshak.^' 



I found it in Deceniber to be the commonest Plujlloscopus 

 at iSukkur, frequenting close-growing tamarisks of no great 

 age situated in damp ground by backwaters of the Indus ; 

 in dry situations I found none. At Jamrao Head, on the 

 E. Narra, Lalso found it fairly common in exactly similar 

 situutions, and also in " babools '' growing in the vicinity o£ 

 tamarisk-jungle. I unfortunately could not hear its notes, 

 l)ut can confirm its restless activity, and it appeared to me 

 quite Phyllosco[)iue in its habits. I met with it singly or in 

 twos or threes in the same tree busily feeding, and sometimes 

 Plujlloscopus sindianus might be associated with it. Blanford 

 obtained one at the Gaj liiver at the foot of the Khirthar, 



