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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 0*49 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. Ill, 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, 67 ; wing, 2'2 ; tail, 2'2 ; tarsus, 0*9 ; 

 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 Raj pu tana, 

 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. 



SUB-FAMILY, Phylloscopinae. 



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- 



