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HUME'S LESSER WHITE-THROAT. 



Length, 5'3 ; wing 2'3 to 2'4 ; bill at front, 0'3. 



Bill brownish ; irides brownish-yellow ; legs brown. 



Forehead and crown pale bluish-grey ; back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts isabelline fawn, or pale sandy brown ; chin, throat, 

 and under surface, white ; second primary equal to the seventh, 

 in some intermediate between seventh and eighth. 



Hume's Lesser White-throat is a not uncommon cold weather 

 visitant to Sind and parts of Guzerat and Rajputana. 



Sylvia althea, Hume. 



582te;\ Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 162. 



THE HIMALAYAN LESSER WHITE-THROAT. 



Upper surface darkish grey, slightly tinged with brown on the 

 back. 



Under surface white ; second primary intermediate in length 

 between or equal to sixth and seventh, or seventh and eighth ; 

 wing, 27 to 2'8 ; culmen, 0'5 1 to 0'56 ; tarsus, 075 to 0'8. 



This species, or race as it may perhaps more properly be called, 

 is a somewhat rare cold weather visitant to most parts of the 

 Presidency. 



Sylvia rufa, Bodd. 



582<7?ml Butler, Guzerat ; (8. cinerea), Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, 

 p. 488 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind (S. cinerea) 

 p. 162. 



THE GREY WARBLER OR WHITE-THROAT. 



Length, 6 to 6'25 ; expanse, 8'5 ; wing, 2-85 to 2'87 ; tail, 2'32 

 to 3 ; bill at front, 0'44 ; bill from gape, 0'62. 



Bill dusky, fleshy at base below ; irides yellowish-brown ; legs 

 and feet yellowish-brown. 



The entire upper surface is a moderately dark, somewhat 

 reddish sooty, or reddish ashy brown, more cinereous on the head, 

 and with the tertials and their greater coverts rather broadly 

 margined with pale dull ferruginous ; the lores are albescent 

 or greyish- white, with traces of a greyer line through them ; 

 chin, upper throat, and eyelid feathers pure white ; ear-coverts 

 silky brown ; lower throat, breast and middle of abdomen, white, 

 tinged with pale vinaceous buff; sides and flanks tinged with 

 brown ; first primary very minute, second primary longest, or 

 second and third equal and longest ; tail a good deal rounded ; 

 exterior feather 0'4 shorter than longest, a paler brown than the 

 rest and margined with white ; next feather tipped with brownish- 

 white ; quills and greater coverts and tail-feathers all paler 

 margined; axillaries greyish- white ; tibial plumes buffy-white ; 

 tarsi stout, 0'87 in length. 



The Grey Warbler occurs during the cold season both in Sind 

 and Guzerat. 



