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ing; soon afterwards, even as early as the 8tli of the 

 month in Griqualand East, they may be seen carrying 

 about nesting-material; but, as far as present records 

 show, the nest in Eastern Cape Colony is not built till 

 considerably later, the earliest date on which a nest with 

 its full complement of three eggs was found at Pirie 

 being November 18. Other nests were brought in up to 

 December 20. 



The nest, placed in a bush a few feet from the ground, 

 is a pretty domed structure, made of slender lichens lined 

 thickly with vegetable down and with a thin inner lining 

 of the seed-sprays of Galopina: it is covered externally 

 Avith moss and lichens, profusely dotted over with spiders' 

 cocoons and cobwebs. The eggs, three or even two only 

 in number, are pale green, with dots and spots of various 

 shades of brown scattered over the surface, more spar- 

 ingly at the narrow end. They measure 13 x 18 mm. 

 In 1918, at Somerville, on the morning of Xovember 11th, 

 the excitement of the pair of birds that live in our gar- 

 den told me that they had young, and a search for the 

 latter resulted in their being seen already at large among 

 the Orange-trees. One of the adults, presumably the 

 female, came repeatedly close to me, and, in a crouching 

 attitude with wings spread and tail slightly expanded, 

 kept calling jeerp jcerp. a more emphatic form of the 

 djjoop. 



ApaJis florisiifja (Licht.) Rchw. — The Yellow-breasted 

 Bush-Avarbler — was taken by Trevelyan in our area, and 

 recorded by Sharpe under the name of Euprlnodcs 

 favida. This is now known to be one of our commonest 

 bush-warblers: along the upper and tlie lower margins 

 of tlie Pirie forest it is Avidely distributed and resident. 

 There they hunt for insects on tlie sunny side of the 

 forest-edge, as well as on llie outlying scrub. They move 

 about like willow wi-eiis, and so cb^sely resemble in their 

 upper i>lumage the foliage among which they are some- 

 times seen hunting that they would easily escape notice 

 but for th'e shaking of the leaves. Though common, they 



