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and formed into a narrow circle round the large end. It is 

 usually found singly or in pairs sitting upon buildings or stone 

 walls or rocks in the vicinity of human habitations. 



[Is common alike in Eastern and Western Jodhpoor, and not 

 rare in Cutch, but does not seem to extend to Sindh, Kattiawar 

 or even Northern Guzerat. — A. 0. H.] 



497.— Ruticilla rufiventris, Vieill. 



The Indian Redstart is common on the hills as well as in the 

 plains during the cold weather. It arrives about the 5th Sep- 

 tember. 



[Common throughout the entire region. — A. 0. H.] 



514.— Cyanecula suecica, Lin. 



The Red-spot Blue-throat is not uncommon. I have met with 

 it on oue or two occasions at Mount Aboo, and have often 

 observed it in the plains. 



It is common wherever there is cultivation, and more espe- 

 cially so round the edges of the tanks and in swampy ground. 

 It is seldom however you meet with one with a full blue 

 breast. On one or two occasions lately I have observed speci- 

 mens with the blue on the breast well developed, but in most 

 cases the birds appear to be in immature plumage. 



[Occurs throughout the whole region, but to judge from the 

 dates on which my specimens were procured, in the more desert 

 portions of Jodhpoor, in Cutch and Kattiawar it is chiefly 

 towards the close of the rains that it is met with. — A. O. H.] 



515.— Acrocephalus (Calamodyta) brunnescens, Jer- 



don. 



The Large Reed Warbler, which so closely resembles its Euro- 

 pean ally Salicaria tnrdoides, Selby, is only a cold weather 

 visitant, and is by no means common in the drier portions of 

 north Guzerat. In these parts I have usually met with 

 it in sugar cane fields, ricecrops or in beds of bulrushes or 

 Reed grass growing on swampy ground, by the side of 

 tanks or rivers. 



It is not uncommon however in the tank country. There it 

 frequents the long sedge and high rushes growing in and by 

 the side of the water and I often had excellent opportunities of 

 studying the birds habits and movements when waiting for 

 duck in such places. 



FThis scarcely belongs to the region with which I am 

 dealing. It is found indeed in those portions of Sindh where 

 large broads and reedy canals abound, but not in the more 

 desert portions, and I have no record of its occurrence in 



