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Stark describes the eggs of this bird as being spotted with 

 light reddish brown. We think this is a clerical error, as the 

 eggs are invariably speckled with dark spots. The nest is 

 always built of rotten dead grass and leaves, no new material 

 being used except the lining, which is composed of fine fibres. 



121. *Erythropygia coryph^us (Linn.). Cape Ground 

 Robin. 



Not uncommon. Previously only recorded from Western 

 Cape Colony. 



The nest is not always placed on the ground, being some- 

 times placed in a bush a few inches above the surface. The 

 eggs vary a little, being sometimes lightly blotched, and at 

 others so profusely that hardly any ground-colour is visible. 



122. LiOPTiLUS NiGRiCAPiLLUS (Vieill.). Bush Blackcap. 

 Sparingly met with in the deep wooded kloofs, or on heavily 



wooded hill-sides, from November to March. It apparently 

 migrates to higher altitudes in Winter. 



123. Alseonax adusta (Boie). Dusky Flycatcher. 

 Very common. It frequents high krantzes in deep kloofs 



and hill-sides. It constructs a neat little nest, covered on 

 the outside with lichen, generally in a small cavity on the 

 face of a krantz ; sometimes it builds in a hollow in the bark 

 on the face of a tree-trunk. Since the hill-sides have been 

 planted with pines and gums this bird has altered its habits, 

 and will build in a fork of a branch, or on the top of a 

 bundle of debris. 



124. Pachyprora capensis (Linn.), (^ape Flycatcher. 

 Common. Affects the wooded valleys near watercourses. 



125. Pachyprora molitor (Hahn & Kuster). White- 

 flanked Flycatcher. 



Fairly common, keeping more to the open bush country 

 than the wooded kloofs. Its nest is a beautiful example of 

 protective resemblance and takes a good deal of finding. 



126. *Pachyprora pririt, Levaill. Pririt Flycatcher. 

 Extremely rare. The occurrence of this bird in Albany is 

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