Eggs from Mount CJiirinihi, SimfJiern RIuxIcs'ki. 15 



shape more or le?s spherical, with a larrre openiiio; ; avera<Te 

 diameter 3 inches. Eogs three, 17 by 12-3 (two) and 16'5 

 bj^ 12 mm. Similar to No. 82, but markings paler and 

 tnking the form of a zone in all three. 



89. 3200 ft. IG. L 08.— A nest two feet from the ground 

 in a shrubby Comhreturn sphndens standing in some 

 open grass-flats. The nest was fastened to the side of 

 an upright twig, the leaves of the latter being brought 

 round and fastened to it nil round, affording not only ample 

 support but a strong outer casing. One projected over 

 the entrance, and must liave served the purpose of throwing 

 off the rain. Two half-set eggs, 18 by 12*5 and 18 by 

 12 mm.; again similar to No. 82, but the markings are 

 larger and in one of the eggs far more of the grey than the 

 bi'own is present ; no zone. In the other many h;iir-like 

 streaks of the brown find a place in the zone of blotches. 



In another clutch of three eggs, number undeci{)herable, 

 but almost certainly of this species, the blue tint of the 

 ground-colour is somewhat more {)ronounced, and the blotches 

 of the two other colours, pale and comparatively large, are 

 more evenly distributed over the whole surface of the egg. 



827. PRINIA MYSTACEA, Riipp. Tawny-flanked Wren- 

 Warbler. 



39. 3200 ft. 21.2. 07.— A nest w^as found three feet 

 from the ground in a small shrub, attached in the usual 

 manner to a small drooping twdg, containing four eggs, 16"5 

 by 12 (three) and 17 by 12 mm. Two are peculiar in the 

 possession of com})arative broad, light, chestnut vertical 

 markings, which give one the impression that the egg had 

 been stood up on its small end and damped before the 

 fine circular lines surrounding the ci'own were drawn, and 

 that much of the '^ ink " had trickled from the latter 

 towards the small end. In the third these suffused markings 

 are not vertical, and evidently simply represent the usual 

 fine scrawlings suffused. 



40. 3800 ft. 7. 12.07.— A second nest three feet from 

 the ground in a bed of bracken, sewn tightly and neatly to a 



