92 Messrs. A. Haagner and R. H. Ivy on the 



outside with a thin laver o£ moss and lined with fine grass 

 and rootlets. The eggs are two in number and resemble those 

 of importunus, but are usually darker both in ground-colour 

 and mottling. Nests in December. 



SG. Parisoma subc^ruleum, Vieill. 



Not uncommon in Upper Albany. 



The eo-gs are three in number and of! a white ground 

 marked with light and dark sepia blotchings, chiefly at the 

 obtuse end. 



87. Phylloscopus trochilus (Linn.). 



Several specimens obtained, so it can hardly be rare. 



88. *AcROCEPHALUS B^TiCATUs (Vieill.). 



A scarce bird ; recorded from Grahamstown by Layard. 



89. Bradypterus brachypterus (Vieill.). Stripe-throated 

 Reed Warbler. 



Not uncommon. 



90. *Eremomela flaviventris (Burch.). Yellow-bellied 

 Bush Warbler. 



Not uncommon in the bush. 



91. Camaroptera olivacea (Vieill.). Green-backed 

 Bush Warbler. 



Fairly common. Locally known around Grahamstown as 

 the Tailor Bird, as it constructs a beautiful semi-dome-shaped 

 nest of fibres and fern-stems, lined externally with moss and 

 internally with white vegetable down. It is usually situated 

 in a green bush and has the leaves of the bush in the 

 immediate vicinity of the nest stitched to it with fine fibre-like 

 down from seed-pods, &c., and possibly cobweb. A nest f 

 taken by us on the 7th January, 1907, contained three pure 

 white hard-set eggs. The unique bleating call so well 

 described by Dr. Stark was very much in evidence when we 

 robbed the nest, and one of the parent birds was shot, which 

 was sent home to make identification certain, in view of 

 Dr. Stark's statements regarding the nidification of this 

 species on page 113, vol. ii. ' Birds : Fauna of South Africa.' 

 t Now in the Transvaal Museum. 



