484 NOTES ON THE AVIFAUNA OF MOUNT ABOO 



specimen of longicaudatus now before me killed early in July. 

 My catalogue shows that we have specimens from Jodhpoor, 

 Cutch, Kattawar and Sindh, and Adam records it as common 

 at Sambhur, but as I cannot now consult the specimens I 

 cannot say in what months all my many examples have 

 been procured ; but I firmly believe that I have killed 

 longicaudatus in every month of the year. Of course all these 

 Drymoipi are very much paler in the hot weather and early 

 part of the rains, and much browner and more rufescent imme- 

 diately after the autumn moult, and I have no doubt that D. terri- 

 color in brig-lit autumnal plumage is often erroneously accepted 

 as D. longicaudatus, but the two species are I believe distinct. 

 —A. 0. H.] 



5446«*.— Drymoipus rufescens, Hume. 



I do not fancy that this species, the Great Rufous Wren 

 Warbler, is very common, unless it has been overlooked by me. 

 I observed it sparingly at Mount Aboo, and have met with 

 it also occasionally in the plains. I see that Mr. Adam does 

 not include it in his paper on the birds of the Sambhur Lake, 

 although he enters D. longicaudatus as common. Possibly he 

 referred to the present species. Mr. Hume kindly identified 

 my bird. 



[As to the distinctness of this species, see above, I., 437, II., 

 453, and III., 408. Mr. Adam has made no mistake ; he has 

 not obtained this species as yet at the Sambhur Lake. The 

 whole of his extensive collections, have through his kindness 

 passed through my hands, and he has presented my museum 

 with specimens, and in many cases large series, of every bird 

 he has obtained from first to last. This species, I have both 

 from Cutch and Kattiawar, but not from Sindh or any part of 

 Jodhpoor as yet. — A. 0. H.] 



545^s — Drymoipus insignis, Hume. S. E., I., 10. 



The Great W ren Warbler is not uncommon at Mount Aboo 

 and is common in the high grass about Deesa. It has a soft 

 melodious, ventriloquistic tiiple note which it repeats conti- 

 nuously from the summit of a rock, from a dead or leafless 

 bough or from the top of some isolated tree or bush. As soon 

 as it has finished it descends hurriedly into the jungle below 

 with a quick jerky flight. It has also a peculiar habit of rising 

 into the air for a short distance and making a noise with its 

 wings like a diminutive cracker, returning afterwards often to the 

 same perch, sometimes to a fresh one. I have noticed this 

 peculiar habit in other members of this family also, Drymoipus 

 terricolor and Prima socialis for instance. The gape, as in the 

 male of the preceding species, is black in both sexes. 



