276 SYLVIIDJE.

belong to this species, but of a very different character, ^has been
sent me by Mr. MandellL This .was found at Tendong, in Native
Sikhiin, on the 6th July, and contained four fresh eggs precisely of
the type of those of A. schistice-ps. The nest was placed in the
cavity of a truncated bamboo about 4 feet from the ground, and
was a loose cup, the basal portion composed of dry bamboo-leaves,
and the rest of the nest being made of excessively fine grass,
flower-stems, similar to those used in the Tailor-bird-like nest
above described, but with a quantity of feathers mingled with this
in the lining of the nest.

The eggs of this species are of precisely the same type as those
of A. schisticeps and A. superciliaris, but they are the smallest of
all. They are little regular oval eggs, with a white, greyish, or
pinky white ground, with deep red freckled and mottled markings,
which are densely set about the large end, where they generally
form a cap or zone, and usually much less dense elsewhere.

The eggs sent me measured 0-55 and O57 by 0*43.

445. Scotocerca inquieta (Cretzschm.). The Streaked Scrub-

Warbler.
Scotocerca inquieta (Rupp-), Hume, Rough Draft N. <§• JE. no. 550 bis.

The Streaked Scrub-Warbler is a permanent resident of the bare
stony hills which, under many names and broken into multi-
tudinous ranges, ran down from the Khyber Pass to the sea,
dividing the Punjab and Sind from Afghanistan and Khelat.

An account of: its niclification is contained in the following note
furnished me by the late Captain Cock :—

" I first discovered this bird breeding in February in the Khut-
tuck Hills. It is common throughout the range of stony hills
between Peshawur and Attock, and I have seen it on the hills
between Jhelum and Pindi, but never took their nest in this latter
locality. At Nowshera it is very common, and towards the end of
[February a collector could take four or five nests in a day. It
builds in a low thorny shrub, about 1| feet from the ground, makes
a largish globular nest of thin dry grass-stems, with an opening in
the side, thickly lined with seed-down, and containing four or five
eggs. Their nesting-operations are over by the end of March.'3

Lieut. H. E. Barnes, who observed the bird at Chainan in Af-
ghanistan, says:—"These birds are quite common about here on
the plains, but I have not observed them on the hills. They com-
mence breeding towards the end of March; the nest is globular
in shape, not unlike that of FranJctinia bucJianani, but somewhat
larger, built invariably in stunted bushes about two feet from the
ground. It is well lined with feathers and fine grass, the outer
portion being composed of fibres and coarse grass. The normal
number of eggs is six. I have found less, but never more, and
whenever a lesser number has been taken they have always proved

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to be fresh laid.