8 2'he Oologisis' Record, March i, 192 1. 



Nyasaland. Two is the invariable clutch with this species in East 

 Africa, as with P. tricolor minor, HeugL, in Uganda : but in Nyasaland 

 three is quite normal. 



Anthreptes collaris hypodilus {Jard.). Of the three or four sun- 

 birds noted, I only fouijd nests of the Zambesi Collared Sunbird. 

 A clutch of two fresh eggs taken 21st August, 1920, did not differ 

 from Uganda specimens except in being rather more thickly marked. 

 The nest was very small, almost open at the top, so that the eggs could 

 easily be seen. It was built of fine dead shredded grass-stalk cases 

 and fine grasses, ornamented exteriorly with a few dark brown masses 

 of what seem to be dead clumps of insect eggs. The lining was of 

 whitish seed-down. A long " streamer " of fine grass hung from 

 the lower lip of the nest, downwards towards the left. The nest 

 was about four feet from the ground and attached by the back to 

 a thin ■ well-leaved branch — near its end — of a green rather thorny 

 shrub, in open scrubland on the coral rag. 



Cisticola hypoxantha reichenowi {see Journal fur 0., 1918. p. 103), 

 This local race of Eraser's Grass Warbler was common and breeding, 

 most nests found containing young. On 27th July, 1920, I took a 

 clutch of four eggs from a nest slung about twelve inches from the 

 ground between the stems of grass which grew six inches higher. 

 It was of the usual Cisticoline construction, slightly domed, of 

 broadish grass and lined with fuscous seed-down. The eggs, finely 

 freckled all over with red, were like those of the same species from 

 Jinja, Uganda. 



C. F. B. 



BIRD NOTES FROM THE WESTERN FRONT. 



. By J. Bishop. 



Having read the very interesting articles in the " O. E. and M." 

 by Mr. Ritson and Captain Congreve, and others, which have 

 appeared in other periodicals, on birds met with in France and 

 Belgium, I thought it might be worth while to place on record my 

 own experiences during three seasons spent in the War zone. 



Being but one of the rank and file, and more or less on the line, 

 naturally my range was somewhat limited, but whenever the slightest 

 opportunity presented itself I was with my beloved birds and thus 

 brightened many an otherwise grey period. I was able to keep a 

 rough but faithful diary covering the period I was out and will 



