6 Mr. C. F. M. Swj'nnerton on Nests and 



the underlying grey even more reduced — quite a different 

 type of egg. Dark brown-madder spots are present in 54, 

 and in 36 this colour has resolved itself into bold but still 

 more or less streaky markings about the large end. In 11 

 the grey is much reduced, and the egg generally streaked 

 all over Avith finer scratchings that fill the spaces between 

 the bolder markings. 



Odcndaal in nearly every case notes that the birds were 

 verv shy and evasive, at once slinking into cover ; and in 

 three cases he confirms my observation ('Ibis/ 11*08, p. 50) 

 that the birds will, Avhere possible, run along the ground 

 when disturbed, both in leaving the nest and in returning. 



52G. Laniarius major (Hartl.). Hartlaub's Shrike. 



JJvf/oscopiis guttatus, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1<S(J5. 



Uryoscopiis mosscunhicus, Finsch & Rchw. Journ. f. Ornith. 

 1880. 



9. 3800 £t. ID. 10. 07.— A nest five feet from the ground 

 in a small patch of den^e bush near ('hipete, attiiched by 

 means of tendrils on either side to a thiek fork of lihoicissns 

 cuneifolia. It contained two eggs, measuring 23 by 18 and 

 22 by 17 mm. ; they were slightly incubated. 



15. 3200 ft. 5. 11.07.— In a grassy, tliiekly-wooded 

 glen, a nest was found five feet from the ground in a three- 

 jironged fork of a Comhretuni splendens. From the base of 

 the fork a mass of leafy suckers grew up all round the nest, 

 concealing it. The latter is the usual rough, shallow, oval 

 structure ; it measures 5 by 4 inches, and is composed 

 externally almost entirely of various roots, including a few 

 of asparagus ; two or three stri])s of sonic [liimate leaf are 

 worked in, and a thick s[)ray of Jh^lic/Dysinu (^apparently 

 //. lei(>j>odiii.)n.) with leaves attached is twined round the 

 whole. Inside the roots ar(^ finer and a large pi()[)ortion 

 are those of ferns, while a single gi ass-head is also worked in. 

 But, apart from this, the lining is hardly to be distingMu'shed 

 from the general structni'c of the nest. It contained two 

 eggs, half-set ; each measured 21 l)y 18 nnn. 



19. 3200 ft. 11.11.07.— A ne.>t in a den^clv wooded 



