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five incubated ones are occasionally met with ; they are oval in 
shape, white, with a pinkish tinge when fresh, very minutely 
spotted and freckled with bright red. 
These spots areusually more dense at the large end, but frequently 
they are speckled equally over the whole surface. 
They average 0°64 inches in length by about 049 in 
breadth. 
Genus, Franklinia, Blyth. 
Bill stout, compressed, deep; culmen moderately curved 
towards the tip ; wings short ; tail broad, moderately lengthened 
and graduated, of twelve feathers, white tipped ; tarsi and feet 
stout. 
Franklinia buchanani, Blyth. 
551.,—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 186; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 486; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 407; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 155 ; 
Cisticola buchanani, Blyth; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 126. 
THE RUFOUS-FRONTED WREN WARBLER. 
Length, 5°25 ; expanse, 6°7 ; wing, 2-9\- tail, 2:2 ;tarsus, 0°95 
bill at front, 0°4. 
Bill brown, yellowish beneath ; irides pale orange-buff; legs 
fleshy. 
Forehead and head pale rufous; plumage above greenish- 
ashy, beneath white ; tail brown, all the feathers, except the 
two central ones, broadly terminated by white, more broadly so 
on the outermost feathers. 
The Rufous-fronted Wren Warbler is a common permanent 
resident in Sind and Guzerat, and is not uncommon in Rajputana, 
but with the exception of Nuggur appears to be altogether absent 
from the Deccan. It breeds from June to August, building a 
rather loose, ragged, purse-shaped nest, composed of grass, lined 
with vegetable down, and is usually placed in a low thorny bush, 
generally ber or scrub. The eggs, four or five in number, are of 
a slightly elongated oval shape, and are white in color, thickly 
spotted and speckled with dingy or purplish-red. In most of the 
eggs the markings are densest at the large end, and they occa- 
sionally form a more or less well defined zone or cap. They 
average 0°62 inches in length by about 0°48 in breadth. 
Sus-ramity, Phylloscopine. 
Mostly of small size ; plumage more or less green above, bill in 
some slightly widened and depressed ; wings moderate, or rather 
long ; tail moderate or short ; tarsus moderate ; feet arboreal. 
Genus, Hypolais, Brehm. 
Bill slender, wide basally ; rictal bristles few ; wings mode- 
