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FRANKLIN'S WREN WARBLER. 



In its nesting habits this is another small tailor-bird, as it also 

 sews up leaves to hold its nest. It is a small brownish bird about 

 four-and-a-half inches in length, an ash-coloured head and white 

 under parts, and a fairly long tail. They are merry little birds, 

 preferring fairly open country, or the outskirts of forests, flitting 

 from bush to bush in small parties, ih-^ir long tails bobbimg behind 

 them as they go, and on arrival breaking out into little snatches of 

 song. They lay small blue eggs spotted with red. 



(No. 382. Franklinia gracilis.) 



THE STRIATED MARSH WARBLER. 



The Striated Marsh-warbler is a large bird for the family, being 

 ten inches in length. Its whole upper plumage a reddish- brown, each 

 feather having a dark stripe down its centre ; greyish white eyebrows, 

 white chin and throat, and lower parts brown. It is very noticeable 

 by the way it sings as it throws itself up into the air, descending 

 with outspread wings and tail. Found in most marshy or swampy 

 tracts. And builds a large nest in clumps of rushes ; and lays white 

 eggs thickly spotted with brown. 



(No. 389. Megalurus palustris.) 



HILL WARBLERS 



Are small birds with elongated tail feathers and remarkable for 

 having a summer and winter dress. They have short pretty songs 

 which they generally utter from the top of a twig. This is a very 

 hard family to identify properly as two of its members are very 

 much alike, and often do not completely change their summer or 

 winter garments. 



THE BROWN HiLL WARBLER. 



A small dark-brown bird about six-and-a-half inches m length with 



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pale edges to its feathers, and its under parts pale coloured. During 

 the breeding season its tail is shorter than in the cold weather. 

 A common little bird with a short pretty song, and found in most 

 parts of the country, inhabiting the long grass and edges of forest 

 lands. It weaves a neat little oval nest, and lays three or four white 

 eggs with pink spots. 



(No. 458. Suya crinigera.) 



