236 SYLVIID^E.

did so belong. The nest was found near the great Ban jit Biver
on the-18th July, and then contained three fresh eggs. The
nest, which is a regular Tailor-bird's, composed entirely of the
finest imaginable panicle-sterns of flowering grass, is a deep cup
placed in between two living leaves, which have been sewn together
at the tips and along the margins from the tip for about half their
length, so as to provide a perfect pocket in which the nest rests.
The leaves of which the pocket is composed were the terminal ones
of the twigs of a sapling, and only about 3 feet from the ground.
The leaves are large oval ones, each about 7 inches in length ; they
have been sewn together with wild silk carefully knotted, exactly
as is the practice of the common Tailor-bird.

The eggs of this species are not separable from others of 0. suto-
rms, and though they may possibly average somewhat larger, I have
not seen enough of them to be able to make sure of this ; and as
regards shape, colours, and markings the description given of the
eggs of 0. sutorius applies equally to eggs of this species,

380. Cisticola volitans, Swinh. The Golden-headed
Fantail- Warbler.

This species was not known to Jerdon, nor was it known to
occur in Burma at the time that I issued my Catalogue. Mr.
Gates, writing of the breeding of this bird in Southern Pegu,
where it is common, says :—" Breeding-operations commence in the
middle of May ; on the 28th of this month I found two nests, one
containing four eggs slightly incubated, and the other two, quite
fresh.

" The nest is a small bag about 4 inches in height and 2 or 3 in
diameter, with an opening about an inch in diameter near the top.
The general shape of the nest is oval. It is composed entirely of
thewhite feathery flowers of the thatch-grass. The walls of the
nest are very thin but strong. The nest is placed about one foot
from the ground in a bunch of grass, and, in the two instances
where I found it, against a weed, with one or two leaves of which
the materials of the nest were slightly bound.

" The eggs are very glossy pale blue, spotted all over with large
and small blotches of rusty brown. I have no eggs of C. aursitans
which match them, in that species the spots being always minute
and thickly scattered over the shell, whereas in 0. volitans the
marks are large and fewer in number. Six eggs measured in
length from '54 to *57, and in breadth from -42 to *43."

381. Cisticola cursitans (TraukL). Tlie Rufous Fantail-
Warbler.

Cisticola sckoenicola, J?^., Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 174; Hwne, Rough
Draft N. fy E. no. 539.

The Eufous Fan tail-Warbler breeds pretty well ^all over India
and Ceylon, confining itself, as far as my experience goes, to the