Eggs from Mount Cldnnda. Southern Rhodesia. 17 



almost at the top) 1 inch ; cup 2'5 inches deep (inside) ; 

 three cgcrs, half-set, 1()'2 by 12 (two) and lG*o by 12 mm. 

 These eggs and the remaining eggs of No. 99 a are peculiar 

 in the fact that their markings take the Cisticola-like form 

 of blotches of pale gT<>y and chestnut-brown (pale in the 

 former clutch, far bolder in tlie other) scattered over the 

 egg. The ground-colour of 102 is that of 72, that of 99 a 

 is whiter. The latter has a very few of the finest streaks 

 and spots of the darkest shade to testify to its Prinia origin, 

 and the other broader but equally scanty markings of the 

 .same character. 



83(j. Apalis thoracica (Shaw & Nod.). Bar-breasted 

 Warbler. 



33. 3800 ft. 29. 11. 07.— A nest 5 feet from the ground, 

 slung to one of the thinner twigs of a bushy shrub standing 

 in a deep wooded glen. Material (not much left) includes 

 moss, fine grass-heads, downy pappi, and the pedicels of 

 Thal'ictrum rhj/nchocarpum. One egg, perfectly fresh, 18 by 

 12*G mm. : in colour a white groiind, covered fairly thickly 

 with smallish, light brownish-red markings. The bird, 

 whenever the nest was approached, at once slipped stealthily 

 into some dense scrub close by, and there kept np softly its 

 " Pi-pi-pi " note. 



38. 3200 ft. 2. 12. 07.— A nest situated 10 feet from 

 the ground, attached to a dry twig in a densely wooded glen, 

 contained three eggs, fresh ; two measured 17 by 13 and 

 IG by 12*5 mm. respectively; colour a white ground speckled 

 over with very small brownish-red markings, markedly paler 

 than in 33. 



46. 3G00 ft. 4. 12.07. — A nest in a wooded glen, slung 

 5 feet from the ground, to a hanging dead branch. Material : 

 downy pappi, fine grass-heads, and moss. It contained two 

 young birds and one very hard-set egg, 18*5 by 12 mm., 

 faint bluish ground with almost equally faint and vague pink 

 markings. 



48. 3800 ft. 7. 12. 07.— Inside the Chipete forest-patch, 

 hanging from a thin drooping twig, 4 feet 8 inches from tho 



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