1922.] the Birds of Sind. 569 



examined differ t'roin S. c. crhw/eni in the same (winter) 

 plumage in having the ground-colour above paler, less warm 

 brown, more grey-brown, and the light streaks also paler ; 

 edges of wings less deep rufous ; under tail-coverts and 

 flanks paler. Other examples of striatida examined are 

 from Kelat, N.W. Frontier Province, and Salt Range. 



Prinia gracilis lepida (Blyth). 



The Streaked AVren-Warbler is locally common thruuglioiit 

 the province ; it particularly atfeets tamarisk-jungle, and is 

 not uncommon in reeds and thick herbage round jheels, in 

 "khan^^ grass-jungle, and I have also seen it in cotton-fields; 

 it is by no means a bird of dry situations, such as desert 

 scrub-jungle etc., where P. inornata may be found. 



The breeding season is very prolonged; Doig gives it as 

 March to September, and this is, I think, about correct. 

 Mr. Bell says that he has found nests by 25 March, and by 

 the end of April, while others yet have eggs, young may be 

 on the wing, which 1 can also confirm. Several broods would 

 seem to be reared, as he has found nests as late as 2 August 

 with eggs. Doig gives the normal clutch as four, and 

 Mr. Bell records up to five eggs in a nest ; he notes that the 

 nests of well-known ovoid shape are usually situated in the 

 bushier ends of tamarisk boughs, but sometimes in ''khan" 

 grass clumps in jungle. The nests are composed of fine 

 grass and fibre interwoven with cobwebs, vegetable-down 

 such as that of " khan," poplar, tamarisk, with spiders' 

 cocoons worked in and lined with similar vegetable downs. 

 The nests measure 100x75 mm. externally. Besides the 

 shrill twittering so often heard, these birds make a snapping 

 noise with the bill. 



Sind birds are topotypical, and measure: — cf, wing 

 43-45; tail (winter) 68-71; tail (summer) 50-61 mm. 

 ? , wing 40*5-43 ; tail (winter) 68-71 ; tail (sunnner) 

 54-56 mm. 



The juvenile has a complete moult, and the spring moult in 

 February and March involves body-feathers, tertials, and 

 tail, but a})[)arently not the rest of the wings. I think it 



