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containing five eggs. It was placed like a Munia's in a thorny bush 7 or 8 

 feet from the ground. The nest was globular and very large, chiefly 

 composed of fine grass but with a few broad-bladed leaves of millet inter- 

 twined. The entrance small, circular, and lateral." 



" The eggs were very regular ovals, pure, glossless white, and varied 

 from 0*7 to 0'75 in length, and were (all the three he sent me) 0'55 in 

 breadth." 



Specimens examined. 



Figures (Plate I.) are taken from d and e. 

 Figures (Plate II.) are taken from jh t and w- 



