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74. Plain Willow Wren. Phylloscopus neglectus. 
Phylloscopus neglectus neglectus, Hume (Ibis, 1870, p. 143—Punjab), 
Noted by Zarudny as a winter visitor to the Karun district ; it breeds accord- 
ing to him in the Zagros in small numbers. It should be fairly common in 
Mesopotamia, but we have no records of it. 
75. Bonelli’s Warbler. Phylloscopus bonelli. 
Phylloscopus bonelli orientalis, Brehm. (Vogelfang. p. 332, 1855— 
Wady Halfa). 
The Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler was met with at Urfa by Weigold during 
spring migration from April 12th to 22nd ; he remarks that it was not common, 
singly or in pairs. 
76. Wood Wren. Phylloscopus sibilatrix. 
Phylloscopus sibilatrix sibilatriz, Bechst. (Naturforschev., 27, 
p. 47, 1793—Thuringan). 
Also recorded by Weigold from Urfa as rather uncommon on passage from 
April 13th to 18th; he remarks that specimens obtained are not paler than 
German ones. So far we have no records of either of these Warblers. 
77. Cetti’s Warbler. Cettia cetti. 
? Cettia cetti crientalis, Trist. (Ibis, 1867, p. 79—Palestine). 
The status of this Warbler in Mesopotamia is unknown and the records are 
few. Buxton heard it near Baghdad on September 17th and again at Amara 
on November 6th, while he obtained two specimens at the latter place on Sep- 
tember 28th and January 9th. 
There is a specimen from Fao, November 4th, in the B. M. and Weigold obtained 
seven males at Urfa between April 12th and 22nd where there were several in the 
gardens. He thinks his specimens belong to the typical race and gives the 
wing measurements as 62-68 mm. These Urfa birds appear to me to be much 
too large for the typical race which usually measure 60-62 ; he mentions nothing 
about the colour. These three Mesopotamian birds are too pale for cetti, especi- 
ally on flanks and undertail coverts and match well in this respect Larkhana 
birds, topo types of cettioides, however they are rather small for this, one male 66, 
and two unsexed 65 and 58. Now five males from Larkhana measure 65.69. 
- 71.71.73 mm. ; (perhaps the first is wrongly sexed) and two females 61 and 63-5 
mm.; four males from Kohat and Khandahar measure 68°5—72°5 mm., and female 
60, so that one may say that usually this race has a wing of 68°5-73 in males and 
60—63°5 in females. One would like to see more Mesopotamian specimens but 
for the present I am inclined to place these under orientalis of Tristram whose 
type came from Palestine rather than under ceftioides. Palestine specimens 
seem to be scarce in collections, there is one in the B. M. and one in the Tring 
Museum ; both of these I have examined ; they do not seem to me to be distin- 
guishable in colour from Sind birds, but are perhaps a little smaller, wing, ¢, 
64°5. 957 mm., but until more Palestine specimens can be examined it cannot 
be considered settled whether orientalis is a sufficiently distinguishable race. 
78. Moustached Sedge Warbler. Lusciniola melanopogon. 
Lusciniola melanopogon mimica, Mad. (1903—Flugblatt, Transcaspia). 
Buxton met with this species in the Hor Hawizie, south-east of Amara, on 
July 13th where it was common in the sedges on the edge of the huge marsh and 
evidently breeding. He obtained three adults in very worn plumage, the organs 
of one of which were much enlarged. These skins are so poor that itis impossible 
to say. which race they belong to. However I saw two or three in reedy dykes 
