20 0)1 yests and l'^(jijs from Mount CJtirinJa. 



Three fresh ego-s, measuring 18-5 hy 15 mm. eacli. of tlie 

 ii.sual pale greenish blue with light red-brown markings, 

 gathered for the most part in a dense zone round the thicker 

 end. There are three degrees of paleness in this clutch, the 

 palest being very pak indeed, and the darkest easily con- 

 fusable with one form of the egg of Erithacus swynnertom. 



lH)i. (JossYPHA HEUGLINI, Hartl. Heuglin's Robin (-hat. 

 20. 3200 ft. 14, 11.07.— A nest in a densely wooded 

 glen, feet from the ground, on a small dry branch, with 

 further support from trailing stems of our lovely climbing 

 fern Ltjgodium subalatum, with which it was surrounded. 

 Grass-blades, a grass-head or two, dead leaves of the Lygodlum 

 itseli", downy pappi, the fine dry petioles of some pinnate 

 leaf, and fern-roots all entered into its composition. Eggs 

 two, fresh, 25 by 17 and 24*5 by 17 mm. respectively, pale 

 uPiiiorm pinkish drab, this colour being, in the case of o)ie 

 especially, slightly deepened in the form of a zone round the 

 thicker end. The bird at once flew off into the neighbouring 

 thickets and remained there until a Bullnil {P. lai/ardi) 

 arrived and commenced to move about in the neighbourliood 

 of the nest. She then at once threw oflp her I'ear of the 

 human intruder and, sallying forth, drove the other off. 



45. 3700 ft. 4. 12. 07. — A nest 4 feet from the ground, 

 flat, on the top of a thick tree-stump in a deep and densely 

 wooded glen, contained two hard-set eggs, 23 by 1G*4 and 

 23 by 17 mm. respectively. At the first glance the}^ appear 

 to be of the uniform olive-brown type of the eggs of Cossijpha 

 natalensis, but a closer inspection shows faint underlying 

 markings of a pinker tinge. Were it not for the position of 

 the nest (the glens, as opposed to more extensive forest, 

 being but little patronised by 6'. ))afalensis) and the fact 

 that the skin collected with tliis clutch is that of C. IteiKjUni, 

 I would still conclude that the eggs were those of the other 

 species. 



