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October, as well as in February and March, so some of them pro-
bably have two broods in the year. I took a nest on the 9th
October at Puttegurh, which contained two callow young and one
(fresh) egg, which I send you, and which is exactly similar to all
the others I have taken from time to time."

The egg sent me by Mr. Anderson is a very broad oval in shape,
a good deal compressed however, and pointed towards the small
end. The shell is very fine and has a decided gloss. In colouring
the egg is exactly like those of some of the Blackbirds—a pale
green ground, profusely freckled and streaked with a bright, only
slightly brownish, red; the markings are densest round the large
end, where they form a broad, nearly confluent, well-marked, but
imperfect and irregular, zone. It measures 0-55 by 0*41.

Colonel C. H. T. Marshall says :—" The Streaked Wren-Warbler
breeds in great numbers near Delhi in March ; Mr. 0. T. Binghani
has found several of them in the clumps of surpat grass that had
been cut within three feet of the ground on the alluvial land of the
Jumna. It was when out with him. in the end of March 1876
that I first saw the nest of this species. The locality of the nest
is exactly that described by Mr. Anderson; it is oval in shape,
with a large side entrance near the top ; it is built of fine grass
and seed-clown, no cobweb being employed in the structure; it is
loosely made, and there are always a few feathers in the egg-cavity.
The whereabouts is generally pointed out by the cock bird, who,
seated on the top of the highest blade of grass he can find near
where his hen is sitting, pours out with untiring energy his feeble
monotonous song, little knowing that by so doing he has betrayed
the spot where he has fixed his nest to the marauder. The eggs,
of which I have seen about fifteen or twenty, answer the descrip-
tion given in * Stray Feathers ' exactly."

Major C. T. Biughani tells us :—""Between the 12th and 31st
March this .year 1 found ten nests of this bird, which is very
common in the grass-covered land of the Jumna. These nests
were all alike, of fine dry grass mixed with the down of the surpat,
which also thickly lined the inside, In. shape the nests are blunt
ovals, with a tiny hole for entrance a little above the centre.
Seven out of the ten nests contained four eggs each, the rest three
each. The eggs in colour are a pale yellowish white with a tinge
of green, thickly speckled with dashes rather than spots of rusty
red, tending in some to form a cap, in others a zone round the
large end. The average of twenty eggs measured is O53 by 0*44
inch. The nests were all, with one exception, supported by
stems of the grass being worked into the sides. The one exception
was a nest I found in the fork of a tamarisk bush. It is not a
difficult nest to find, for when you are in the vicinity of one, one
of the birds will flit about the stems of the surrounding clumps of
grass and above you freely, opening its tiny mouth absurdly wide,
but giving forth the feeblest of feeble sounds."

Writing on the Avifauna of Mt. Abu and N. G-uzerat, Colonel
E. A. Butler says :—" I found a nest in a tussock of coarse grass