5i;8 Dr. (J. B. Ticoliurst on [This, 



myself in Sind ; none o£ the various '•dliand.s' 1 visited seemed 

 to be suited to its requirements in the way o£ dense cover ; 

 ultimately I succeeded in finding it on the great Manchar 

 Lake ; I was beating out some high, thick rushes on the cdg(! 

 of a drying-up ditch for whatever it might contain, when I 

 flushed a Cetti's Warbler. It soon settled again in the rush, 

 and I was able to watch it cr('(>ping about or, rather, catch 

 glimpses of it before 1 finally secured it ; and it appeared to 

 me to be less skulking than 1 anticipated — less so than Locns- 

 tella dram'inea, which was in the same rushy margin. The 

 very dark brown colour and the long, rounded tail are the 

 diagnostic features in the field. I have no doubt that in 

 suitable places on the Manchar it is common, but T do not 

 think it is to be found in ordinary reed-beds, which prevail in 

 the part I was in. My specimen was obtained on 20 Decem- 

 ber, and Hume got his about 8 January ; it is probably a 

 winter visitor. 



A series from Sind (topotypes) measure : — Wings : ^ , 

 68-5-7;) ; ? , 60-03-5 mm. 



Suya crhiigera striatula (Hume), 



Resident in the Khirthar Range, the Long-tailed Hill- 

 Warbler is apparentl}' not very uncommon in suitable places, 

 though proljably local. Thus both Day and Hume failed to 

 find it ; Blanford obtained the type at Kand, a border post 

 in the hills about 40 miles north of Karachi^ and got others at 

 Mandtal, Dliaryaro, and Sita Nai — all in the Larkhana 

 District. It was long before I came across it, and then only 

 a single bird in the pass of the Soorjana close to the pool, 

 I searched there and the Laki Hills in vain for it, but at the 

 time everything was very dried up, and probably if the hill- 

 grass fails, it scatters out to any suitable cover it may find, 



Hume w^as so struck by the distinctness of the Sind bird 

 that he made it not only a new species, but actually created 

 for it a new genus ! — a procedure, adopted by so conservative 

 an ornithologist, which should be instructive to those wdio 

 even at this day scout at geographical races, for the Sind bird 

 is only a race of the Himalayan one. The type and five others 



