570 r>r. C. B. Ticehurst on [Ibis, 



likely that this bird breeds in the year of hatching, as is the 

 case with Uroloncha malabarica and perhaps Prinia Jiav'i- 

 reittris, Latidlla burnesi, etc., as I obtained a bird on 2 July 

 in juvenile plumage with testes considerably enlarged ; it 

 would be interesting to know, if they breed, whether they 

 moult first into adult dress. It is possible that the late 

 nestings of species with a prolonged breeding season refer 

 to early hatched birds ; this is a point which requires further 

 study. 



Prinia flaviventris sindiana Ticeh. 



The Yellow-vented Wren-Warbler is a very local bird in 

 Sind ; it is essentially a bird of tamarisk and " khan " grass- 

 jungle, but does not occur apparently everywhere where 

 these conditions obtain. Doig found it tolerably common 

 along the E. Narra Canal, keeping to very thick jungle and 

 not easily seen unless looked for. Here he found nests in 

 the middle of May and at the same time well-grown young 

 on the wing ; the normal clutch was four eggs. He gives 

 the nesting season as March, June, and September. Butler 

 met with it in one strip of tamarisk and " khan "' grass jungle 

 near Sukkur in February. Almost in the same place — in the 

 Ketishah Forest — Mr. Bell came across it breeding at the 

 end of April; he says, in the notes he has given me, that it 

 nests either in clumps of " khan " grass or in the thicker 

 boughs of tamarisk three to five feet from the ground. The 

 nest, shaped rather like that of the Sun-bird but with the 

 opening right at the top, is composed of thin grass roots and 

 vegetable down and lined with fine i>rasses ; it measures on 

 the outside 6 x 2| inches. The alarm note is a plaintive 

 *' twee,^' like that of P. socialis ; the call note, uttered from 

 the ti}) of a bare twig, consists of four or five silvery notes 

 uttered in quick succession, and may be syllablis^ed as 

 " twuddle-li-li^' — quite unlike that of P. lepida. Although 

 I was in quite suitable country on the E. Narra and else- 

 where, including a forest close to the Ketisludi Forest, I failed 

 to meet with this bird. 



In the Bull. B. 0. C. xl. 1920, p. 157, 1 separated the Sind 



