638 Dr. (1. B. Ticelmrst o?i [Ibis, 



bare desert tliere are few places where this cheerful little 

 bird may not be met with — a small clump of acacia trees out 

 on the desert is sufficient cover to harbour one or two, while 

 the rocky gorges of the lower hills of the Khirthar range as 

 at Soorjana, Laki, or the Gaj, scant}- as the trees and 

 bushes there are, seem always to hold odd birds. 



The Indian Redstart is a late migrant in Sind ; the earliest 

 I have seen in Lower Sind was on 29 September, and it 

 is not at all common till mid-October. It leaves again in 

 the last week of March ; the last to go arc the females^ and 

 I have notes of odd ones as late as 16 April. 



The adult male has the mantle and scapulars black with 

 grey edges, the median and lesser wing-coverts black; the 

 first winter male has no black on the upper parts, these being 

 grey with brown edges and the lesser and median wing- 

 coverts dark slate edged with grey, and furthermore it 

 retains the browner juvenile flight-feathers and greater 

 coverts. Wings, c? 80-84 mm. ; second primary between 

 the seventh and eighth in length. At the end of February 

 there is a partial moult in both sexes involving the feathers 

 of the face (forehead, chin, ear-coverts). 



The type was obtained at Shikarpur by Grriffith ; the 

 fixing of the type-locality as Kashmir (J. Bombay N. H. S. 

 xxvii. p. 712) was unnecessarily wrong. 



Ridicilla mesoleiica, recorded by Murray from Daulatpur, 

 was really sent him from Bushire. Pluvmcurus erythronotus, 

 which occurs in northern Beluchistan and Lower Punjab, has 

 not been met with in tSind. 



Cyanosylvia siiecica pallidogularis (Zarud.). 



Wherever sufficiently thick cover on damp ground occurs 

 the Bluethroat is fairly common ; it particularly affects reed- 

 beds round drying jheels, tamarisks, crops such as " jowari," 

 " triagal," etc., and I once saw one in a mangrove forest in 

 Karachi Harbour. It arrives about the end of the first week 

 in October and the latest I have seen it is 11 April, though 

 most have gone, I think, by the third week in March, by 

 which time the spring moult is finished. It is a skulking 

 little bird, and when flushed dives for the nearest little open 



