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maro-incd at the tips with albescent. The whole lower surface 

 is albesceutj tinged with very pale fnlvous fawn^ or earthy brown, 

 more strong-ly so in some specimens than in others ; the sides and 

 flanks more strongly so in all; indeed in some specimens the sides 

 and flanks are pale earthy brown ; the wing lining- and axillaries 

 are white, with at times the faintest possible fulvous or brown- 

 ish tinge. 



I obtained one specimen of P. nitida, Lath., floating in the 

 Jhelum, some few miles above its junction with the Clienab, but 

 this was the only specimen we saw, and maj/ have floated down 

 the whole way from Cashmere. 



563.— Reguloides occipitalis. 



We never procured this in Sindh, but Capt. Maiden had shot 



it at Jacobabad. 



581.— Sylvia Jerdoni, Blyth. 



This species I often met with near the banks of the larger 

 rivers, but inland I saw few specimens. I measured one rather 

 fine female in the flesh j the dimensions were : 



Length, 6"8; tail, from vent, 2'8 ; wing, 3*; wings, when 

 closed, reached to within 1'3 of end of tail ; bill at front, 0*55 ; 

 tarsus, 1 ; the irides were very pale, whitish yellow ; the bill, 

 horny brown, pale greyish at base of lower mandible ; legs and 

 feet, dark greenish grey. 



I follow for the present Mr. Gray in separating our Lidian 

 birds from the European orphea, Tem. ; at the same time, I am 

 far from convinced that they deserve specific separation. 



582.— Sylvia affinis, Blytli, ^V 



White-throats were no less abundant in Sindh, than they are /) 

 everywhere else about Continental India during the cold sea- 

 son. I preserved numerous specimens at Jlielum, Mittencote!, ^ 

 Tugwanee, Jacobabad, Sukkur, K-oree, Hyderabad, &c., and -^'- 

 carefully ascertained, and recorded the sexes of all my specimens, 

 yet I am still in the same state of uncertainty, with more than 

 fifty specimens before me from all parts of Lidia, as well 

 as from Sindh, besides others from Yarkand, aud true curruca 

 from England, as to whether we have only one or three species 

 in India, and whether if we have only one, this is the true lesser 

 white-throat or not. 



My difficulties are simply these. ' 



There are three apparently very distinct races, differing chiefly 



in size, but also somewhat in shade of coloring. I have failed 



hitherto to discover any other constant points of difference, and 



so far as I am concerned, therefore, I should be inclined to eon- 



