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its white head, brown body, and small size give it very much the appear- 

 ance of a cin-ar with the white ash on it." 



Reichenbach remarks in his ' Singvogel,' published in 1861, that " these 

 birds have often been brought to us in modern times from East and South 

 India, more especially from Sumatra and Borneo. They are great favour- 

 ites, more for their gentleness and pretty manners than for their weak voice. 

 I received lately from Sumatra four little pairs with their nests and eggs, 

 and a fifth nest was already to be found in Thienemann's collections. The 

 long melon-shaped nest is built between reeds and sedges ; it has an oval 

 opening of 5 cents, in diameter. It is composed of grasses of the millet 

 species, loosely and untidily woven together and wound round outside with 

 a quantity of narrow and broad blades of grass, and thickly lined again 

 inside with very fine silky-haired grasses twined together. The two or 

 three eggs are dull white." 



Specimens examined. 



collection. 



