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rather blackish brown ; the outer feather on each side is rather 

 lighter, and is tipped with white. The tail feathers are cross- 

 rayed, particularly the outer ones. 



Lower surface of body, except sides of neck, breast, and jflanks, 

 white, with narrow brown streaks from chin to upper breast. 

 These streaks are well defined in one specimen, and faint in 

 another. Lining" of wing and ridge of the same, reddish white. 

 Bill, dark brown, except basal half of lower mandible, which is 

 dull brownish orange ; legs and feet, yellowish brown ; claws, 

 brown. Length, 4-55 to 4-8 inch; wing, 1'93 to 1-95 ; tail, 2-14 

 to 2-33 ; tarsus, -77 to -82 ; bill, at front, -35 ; from gape, "46. 

 The bill is excessively like that of Melizophiliis provincialis, the 

 wing also resembles that bird, except that the first primary is 

 larger in proportion. Tail of similar form, but proportionately 

 sliorter ; the outer feathers are "35 shorter than the central ones. 



Notu>ithstanding the difference I have noted, the general 

 resemblance is so strong to melizopliilus , that I have placed it in 

 that genus. The head is streaked, and so are the throat and 

 breast, but I have a Dartford warbler with small white streaks 

 on the throat. It would not be advisable, therefore, to create a 

 new generic term, merely because, in mode of coloration, it differs 

 somewhat from melizopMliis!' 



I have only to add that in one of my specimens the streaks on 

 the chin and throat are altogether wanting ; that the central 

 tail feathers are pretty conspicuously margined with greyish 

 brown, and that both the lateral feathers on each side are ti]3ped 

 with white, in some specimens the external pair being pretty 

 broadly so tipped. The following are dimensions of a male 

 taken in the flesh. Length, 4*7; expanse, 6*2 ; tail, from vent, 

 3 ; wing, I'D ; wings, when closed, reach to within 1'6 of end of 

 tail ; bill at front, 0*35 ; tarsus, 0'8; weight, 0*3 of an oz. 



I should note that in one specimen not only the sides and 

 flanks, but the whole abdomen, vent, and lower tail coverts, are 

 strongly tinged with pale rufous fawn. 



591 Us, — Motacilla dukhunensis, ^ylm, ^j 



I have already in a separate paper. Stray Feathers, page 26, 

 discussed our Indian grey wag-tails. I need only here say that' 

 this present species was very abundant throughout Sindh, and 

 that one of the specimens I obtained would certainly pass mus- 

 ter any where if killed in Europe, as M. alba. 



592. — CalobateS boarula, Penn.suliMirea, Bedist. 



Very common in Sindh. Some ornithologists separate our 



Asiatic race as melanoj^e, Pall. I have compared a large series 



