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in the sandy bed of a river, amongst a number of tamarisk-bushes,
on the 8th July, 1875, in the neighbourhood of Deesa. It was
composed of fine dry fibrous roots and grass-stems exteriorly, and
lined with silky vegetable down. It was a long bottled-shaped
structure with a small entrance on one side. The nest, eggs,
situation, locality, &c. all agree so exactly with the descriptions
quoted by Dr. Jerdon and with Mr. Anderson's note in ' Nests and
Eggs,' Rough Draft, that I should have found it difficult to avoid
copying these two gentlemen in describing my own nest.

"The nest contained three hard-set eggs and one young one
just hatched."

Eeferring to its occurrence in the Eastern Ibarra District, Mr.
Doig tells us :—" This little Warbler is very common. I took the
first nest in March and again in May ;' they build in stunted
tamarisk-bushes; the nest is circular dome-shaped, with the
entrance on one side the top, the inside being very beautifully and
softly lined with the pappus of grass-seeds. Pour is the usual
number of eggs in one nest/'

The Blackbird type of egg above described is by no means the
commonest one ; the great mass of the eggs have the ground
greyish, greenish, or pinkish white, and they are very thickly and
finely freckled and speckled all over, bat most densely about the
large end, with a slightly brownish, rarely a slightly purplish grey.
Occasionally when the markings are very dense in a cap at the
large end there is a distinct purplish-grey tinge there, and on the
rest of the surface of the egg the markings are somewhat less
thickly set, leaving small portions of the ground-colour clearly
visible. Typically the eggs are moderately broad ovals, a little
compressed towards the small end, and though none are very
glossy, the great majority have a fair amount of gloss.

463. Prinia flaviveiitris (Deless.). The Yellow-bellied Wren-

Warbler.

Prinia llaviventris (Dekss.\ Jerd. B. 2nd. ii, p. 1G9: JEfaime, Rouyh
Draft N. $ JS. no. 532.

Of the Yellow-bellied Wren-Warbler's nidification I know
personally nothing.

Tickell describes the nest as pensile but quite open, being a
hemisphere with one side prolonged, by which it is suspended from
a twig. The eggs, he says, are bright brick-red without a spot.

Mr. H. C. Parker tells me that " this bird breeds in the Salt-
Water Lake, or rather on the swampy banks of the principal
canals that intersect it. The nest is nearly always placed on
an ash-leaved shrub-like plant growing on the banks of the canal
and overhanging the water. One taken on the 26th July, 1873,
containing four nearly fresh eggs, was almost touching the water
at high tide. The male has the habit, when the female is sitting,
of hopping to the extreme point of a tall species of cane-like grass

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