484 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on Birds from Fao. 
[Resident. Breeding in May and June, and laying from 
three to four eggs.] 
41. Burnesia leptda (Blyth) ; Sharpe, op. cit. vii. p. 211. 
A very pale grey specimen with the narrow stripings of 
B. lepida , but mnch more ashy than any specimen in the 
British Museum. 
[Resident. Plentiful among the small bushes. 
Breeds from April to June, laying from five to six eggs.] 
42. Argya huttoni (Blyth); Sharpe, t. c. p. 394. 
Crateropus huttoni, Blanf. t. c . p. 203, pi. xiii. 
Three specimens. They are much paler than typical 
A. huttoni , and much less plainly streaked, besides being 
smaller in size. 
[Resident. Very plentiful; breeding throughout April and 
May to the middle of June. The usual number of eggs is 
three. On the 19th of June, 1884, I took a nest containing 
three fresh eggs. This is of rare occurrence, for by this time 
most nests contain young, and many young are seen flying 
about the bushes attended by the parent birds.] 
43. Lanius minor, Gm.; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
vol. viii. p. 235; Blanf. t. c . p. 137. 
No. 75. An adult and a young bird. 
[Seen from March to May, and again in August and 
September. 
Both those sent to the Museum were shot on the 1st of 
September, 1884.] 
44. Lanius fallax, Finsch; Gadow, t.c. p. 247, pi. viii. 
Seems to me to come nearest to a specimen from Meso¬ 
potamia, obtained by Commander Jones, and determined by 
Dr. Gadow to be L. fallaoc. Of the validity of some of the 
species of Lanius admitted by the last-named author I have 
the highest doubts. 
[The only specimen, secured by me in September 1884, 
unless one supplied to the Karachi Museum in the early part 
of the year, but not identified by Mr. Murray, is of the 
same species.] 
