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next pair white on tlie outer webs, and witli a moderately broad 

 wliite tip to both webs; the rest of tbe inner webs, dark hair- 

 brown; the rest of the feathers dark hair brown, margined on the 

 outer webs with pale rufous. The whole of the lower parts 

 white, with, in the freshly-killed bird, a just perceptible rufescent 

 ting-e; wing lining and axillaries, pure white; wings, pale 

 brown, narrowly margined and tipped with rufescent white ; 

 the tertiaries, pale dingy rufescent. with browii sliaftsy / /^ 



583 2^tclf.^MelizopMlus striatus, Brooh. 



Only a short distance below the summit of Duryalo, the 

 highest hill in the range that divides Khelat from Sindh, my 

 friend Dr. Day shot three specimens of a small warbler which 

 I at once referred to the same genus as the Dartford warbler, 

 and from its striated plumage christened striatus. This was on the 

 16th January. All three birds were obtained in stunted Acacia 

 trees or bushes. I myself never saw the bird alive ; but mea- 

 sured one specimen in the flesh. 



In February, Capt. Cock observed and procured the same bird 

 at Nowshera, half way between Attock and Peshawar. He sent 

 them to Mr. Brooks, who without any knowledge of my having 

 already procured this species, and quite independently solely 

 from the same considerations of structural affinities and charac- 

 ter of plumage, named and published it under the same name 

 that I had selected for it. • 



Capt. Cock remarked that they were found in pairs among 

 low stony hills, and are very restless active little birds, and pro- 

 portionately difficult to shoot. 



This species breeds, according to Capt. Cock, in April, laying 

 a small white, reddish pink-speckled egg similar to that o^FranJc- 

 lenia Buchanani, and not very unlike that of JBhyllopnetiste rama. 

 The eggs measure about 0'63 by 0"45 ; in shape they are a 

 moderately brOad oval, somewhat compressed towards one end : 

 the ground is a pure glossless white, and they are moderately 

 densely (most densely so at the larger end, where there is a ten- 

 dency to form a zone) sprinkled and speckled very finely with 

 reddish pink, pinkish red, or in places in and about the zone 

 purplish lilac. I reproduce Mr. Brooks's original description. 



Descrijotion. — " Above, light brownish grey, streaked on the 

 head as far as the shoulders, with dark-brown, narrow streaks ; 

 a pale rufous-brown broad supercilium ; the cheeks, and ear 

 coverts are also of this color, which extends down the sides of 

 the neck and breast, becoming very pale, and diluted under 

 the wings, and on the flanks. Wings, light brown ; the edges 

 of quills and coverts, greyish. Tail, a very much darker or 



