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tlie second^ 0"4 to 0-5; and the first, I'l to I'S sliorter; the irides 

 are brown ; the leg's and feet are pale brown^ or fleshy brown, 

 darker on toes and claws, the bill is dark horny-brown ; but 

 paler on lower mandible. A spot in front of the eyes dusky. A 

 streak from the nostrils over the eye and a circle round the eye, 

 fulvous white ; the forehead, crown, and whole upper surface, a 

 warm rufous or ferruginous brown, more rufous on the rump, 

 and upper tail coverts ; the quills and tail, hair brown, margined 

 with rufescent olive; the ear coverts, sides of the neck, body, 

 flanks, and vent feathers, a pale dull greyish or earthy brown ; 

 chin, throat, breast, and abdomen, white. Lower tail coverts 

 sliglitly rufous brown (webs very lax and mitcli disunited) nar- 

 rowly tip]>ed with white ; axillaries and wing lining, slightly 

 greyish white ; the edge of the wing, just above the base of the 

 primaries, is white; in some few specimens the eye-streak ex- 

 tends beyond the eye, above more than half of the ear coverts, 

 but in most it ceases just behind the posterior angle of the eye. 

 Our birds somewhat exceed in size European specimens. Mr. 

 Brooks sends me the measurements of two — wings, 2'43 and bill 

 at front, 0"39. Before working the bird out, I had fancied tliat 

 it might be Bradyptetus cinnamomeus, Riippell, but that I find is 

 a considerably larger bird, and has a decidedly stouter bill, and 

 I myself am not disposed to separate our Sindh race. It is 

 certainly, as far as I can judge, though somewluit paler on the 

 upper surface, and slightly larger, in other respects, absolutely 

 identical with Cetti's warbler. If any one chooses to separate 

 it, it must stand as Cettia Cettioides, nobis, unless it should prove 

 to be Tristram^s orieiitalis from Palestine, of whicli I have no 

 aecurate description at hand. 



530.— Orthotomus longicaudiis, Gmel 



I never met with this species mA^self in Sindh, but Captain 

 Maiden informed me that he had killed a specimen at Jacobabad 

 in March, and since my return I have had a specimen sent me 

 from the neighbourhood of Kurrachee. -Y 



544.— Drymoipns longicaiidatus, T'wl. ' 



This species was very common indeed on the banks of the 

 larger rivers, alike in the Punjab and in Sindh; but though it 

 did occur inland, I saw it there mucli seldomer. I measured, 

 as it happened, a great number of specimens in the flesh, and 

 I therefore append the dimensions, which so far as the length 

 of the tail is concerned, and consequently the entire length of 

 the bird, vary materially. Length, 5-35 to 6-4 ; expanse, 6-1 

 to 6-8; tail, from vent, 27 to 3-5; wing, 1-85 to 2-15; wings. 



