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Lanius senator^ L. 



" Nest and fresh eggs, 24th May 1919, Taq-i-Girreh. Nest like that of collu- 

 rio, in small oak, neater than usual shrikes, built of wool and hair with stalks 

 of calvary clover with seed heads on it. Inside lined with white woolly flowers 

 of a plant like eidelwies, and spiders webs. One piece of newspaper and dead 

 leaf" (R. E. C). 



Lanius minor, Gm. — Lesser Grey Shrike. 



1 c?. Gulahek, Tehran— 11th June (R. E. C). 

 "Paired, testes plus." It is curious that I never saw that most conspi- 

 cuous bird the Lesser Grey Shrike at Qazvin, though I was there from 17th 

 July until the end of the summer. I am almost convinced that a number of 

 the birds which breed in Qazvin, and no doubt in other places in the northern 

 part of the plateau move away from their breeding places by the middle of 

 July, just when everything becomes hot and dry and dusty. 



Mvscicapa parva parva, Bechst. — Red-breasted Flycatcher. 



1 (5 . Enzeli — April. 



The above was the only specimen I saw of the Red -breasted Flycatcher. 

 ]1was shot in a dense wood close to Enzeli. 



Muscicapa hypoleuca semitorquata, Horn. {M. atricapilla semitoquata). — Pied 

 Flycatcher. 



2 J , 2 9, Tehran— 6th- 10th June (R. E. C). " Organs very small." 

 This race of the Pied Flycatcher " Seems to catch most insects on the ground, 



and occasionally on the branch of a tree — not seen catching them on the wing " 

 (R. E. C). 



Phylloscopius collyhita abietina (Nilss.). — Scandinavian Chiffchafi. 

 2 J , 1 ? , Resht— February -March. 



The Scandinavian race of the ChifichafE was the only one of which skins were 

 preserved. It was common through the winter at Resht and Enzeli. The wings 

 of the males measure 65, 66 mm, of the female 57 mm. 



I heard the note of some race of the Chiffchafi at Enzeli from 15th March 

 to the third week in April. Zarudny records the Common Chiffchafi P. c. colly- 

 hita) as " breeding ( ? ) " in the Caspian region of Persia. 



Lusciniola melanopogon mimica. Mad. — Eastern Moustached Sedge Warbler. 

 1 S . Resht — January. 

 1 sex ? Enzeli — March. 

 This Eastern race of the Moustached Sedge Warbler was locally common in 

 winter in reed beads at Enzeli and Resht and I saw it until the third week in 

 March. A very minor, but inconvenient " war " prevented my seeing the bird 

 after that. Zarudny records it as breeding in the region south of the Caspian, 



Cettia cetti orientalis, Tristram. — Cetti's Warbler. 



1 (5 . Kermanshah — 30th November 1918. 



1 d • Enzeli — 6th February. 



1 ?. Kermanshah— 27th May (R. E. C). 



1 d • Khurramdarrah — 23rd June (R. E. C). 

 Apart from the above records Cheesman found Cetti's Warbler quite generally 

 distributed in all the places he visited in the plateau in May and June. At 

 Kermanshah he found a nest on 27th May " in a thick rose bush one foot from 

 ground on a bank ; neat and strong, made of grasses lined with hair. It con- 

 tained unfledged young and one unhatched egg of a uniform anchovy sauce 

 colour." At Tehran he saw Cetti's Warbler as high as 6,000 feet. 



Specimens of Cetti's Warbler from Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine agree 

 in colour with the pale eastern race Cettia cetti cettioides, Hume, but in size they 

 are small, like the western C. c. cetti. It seems best to admit the validity of 

 Tristram's name orientalis even though, as Dr. Hartert informs me, the name 



