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space, where it settles and runs with tail cockeJ-up into the 

 nearest cover. I only very occasionally saw one perched up 

 on a bush conspicuously, and that at about sunset when it 

 was doubtless singing. 



Seven males : wing 695-75, bill 15-16 nun. 



Three fein.iles: wing 70'5-74, bill 15-16 nun. 



The blue on the throat varies a little in paleness; all are 

 too pale here and on the back for S. siiecica, and correspond 

 well with pallidofndaris. Dr. Hartert (Vog. pal. Faun.) recog- 

 nizes dicessa from Altai as the smallest, palest, and bluntest- 

 winged Bluethroat. Two specimens from Sind match well 

 in these respects two from Altai. The point of the wing in 

 Sind birds varies from 12-15"5 mm. taken from tip of inner 

 secondary next the tertials, and this in dicessa I make 

 12-14 mm. ; t!ie wing-measurements and colour differences 

 between these two races are so very slight (and not very 

 constant) that I am not satisfied that dicessa is a good race. 

 Should it eventually turn out on examination of more 

 breeding birds from Altai to be recognizable, then dicessa 

 occurs in Sind. 



Thamnobia fulicata cambaiensis (Lath.). "Kabari Pusri." 

 In Sind the Indian l{o()in is very much a bird of the 

 desert, whore scattered euphorbias and a few camel-thorn 

 bushes ("Kandero^') alone struggle for existence or in 

 places which, where more frequent liushes occur, might be 

 dio-uified by the name of open scrub-jungle. Here it is 

 more noticeable as birds are very scarce, and 1 have been 

 in forlorn and desolate-looking low hills where, in the hot 

 weather, a pair or two of this bird were the only living- 

 thin t>s to be seen. It seemed, therefore, all the more remark- 

 able to me to find it common in quite thick damp " kaku " 

 orass and "kandi" jungle on the Narra Canal, where it 

 appeared equally at home ; to cultivation, however, and to 

 the vicinity of habitations it seemed quite foreign, and I do 

 not remember meeting with it in such situations. 



The Indian Robin is resident; it breeds in April and 

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