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Jodhpoor, except on the extreme east near Sambhur, nor in 

 Cutch or Kattiawar. It does not occur, I believe, at Aboo. — 

 A. O. H.] 



516. — Acrocephalus dumetorum, Blyth. 



The Lesser Reed Warbler is not uncommon at Mount Aboo> 

 but I have not met with it in the plains. It frequents tall trees 

 (willow principally) overhanging water or wet or dry nullahs, 

 though by no means strictly aquatic in its habits, as I have often 

 met with it in high trees at a considerable distance from any 

 water. Since writing the above I have shot specimens near 

 Deesa, in low bush jungle. It arrives about the 10th or 12th of 

 September and is not uncommon. 



[Not as yet met with in Sindh, Cutch or Jodhpoor, except 

 on the extreme east at Sambhur. But Captain Hayes Lloyd 

 found it very common during the cold season in Kattiawar, 

 and I have little doubt that it will be fouud in the better 

 watered tracts in all the sub-divisions, though it may be rare in 

 some. — A. 0. H.] 



520.— Locustella Hendersoni, Cass. 



Henderson's Locustelle is not at all common, and I have only 

 observed it on one or two occasions. It frequents low swampy 

 ground overgrown with long grass and thorny bushes, jujube, 

 babool trees, &c, and I have only met with it hitherto in the rainy 

 season. 



[Correctly described by Dr. Jerdon, but under the name of 

 L. certhiola, Pallas, a quite distinct species. I have no record 

 of this species occurring either at Aboo, or in any one of the sub- 

 divisions of the whole region. It is however a bird that moves 

 about greatly (one week a swamp is full of them, a week later, 

 and the swamp having become a little wetter or drier, not one 

 is to be found), and that it is only too easy moreover to 

 overlook ,so that negative evidence in a case like this goes for 

 little.— A. 0. H.] 



530.— Orthotomus longicaudatus, Gmel. 



The Indian Tailor bird is common both on the hills and in 

 the plains. 



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



534. — Prinia socialis, Sykes. 



The Ashy Wren Warbler is very common at Mount &boo 

 but not very plentiful in the plains. It nests in the plains 

 during the monsoon. A specimen, which I shot in Deesa (?) 

 has a whitish line on each side of the head, running from the nos- 

 trils to the centre of the upper eyelid. My specimens 

 from Aboo are slightly larger than those from the plains, measur- 



